Microsoft Posts Details on Porting an iPhone App to Windows Mobile

[sanmanc]

Microsoft has posted a detailed case study in it's Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) site on how to port iPhone apps to Windows Mobile 6.5. This guide was probably developed to allow current iPhone developers to port their apps to the upcoming Window Mobile Marketplace. Gripwire.com, a mobile and social application development company, was successfully able to port their Amplitude iPhone app to Windows Mobile according to MSDN.

Since the launch of iPhone OS, Android, and WebOS, Microsoft has lost ground on the mobile phone market. With the launch of Windows Mobile 6.5, Microsoft is making a push to regain lost ground and now with the ability to port the thousands of apps already available for the iPhone, and those already available for Windows Mobile, they are destined to make up lost ground. Many analysts have reported that Microsoft needs to do more than to open a app store and suggest developing their own hardware. Microsoft does not appear that they will be venturing in this direction but some rumors have begun floating around that Microsoft is looking at acquiring Palm.

For the development of this the developers used an HTC Touch Pro with a recent Windows Mobile 6.5 beta build. The HTC Touch Pro was chosen because of some of the hardware specs that Amplitude requires.

Microsoft plans on launching the Microsoft Window Mobile Marketplace late this year.



Source Microsoft MSDN
Special thanks to Darrell262

[mlin]

This is so cool! I was skeptical when thinking about WM making a strong comeback. I think the successful porting of iPhone apps to WM opens up a world of opportunities. No more worring about bringing developers back to WinMo or catching up with Apple's already expansive app store.

[Rafy0003]

I totally agree, This should put us back on top, Although If Sprint get's the Htc Hero as rumored I am going to try Android, Tried Pointui and I wann try the real thing, but now we can rub our Tp in the Iphone user faces and slide our keboard and pull out out our Sd cards to stunt out.


Oh yea, Is there a link for this App yet?

[PintozozDIAM]

fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu yeah!

take that iFags!

[aaronvlee]

"another one bites the dust!" Maybe all these "popular" adults can now realize that their iphone is just a graphics chip in a paper weight...let the revolution begin lol

[drift365]

Its not the app store thats so great about the iphone. Its the hardware.

[phullofphil]

Originally Posted by drift365

Its not the app store thats so great about the iphone. Its the hardware.

Is not just the hard ware. windows mobiles has better multi tasking and and things that can bog the phone down if your not carefull. Iphone keeps it real simple so as to not bog as bad but not allow to much customizing. If windows mobile was only one phone i would bet it would not be a compairison. You will see some amazing winnmo phones very soon. Only thing i like on i phone is screen is glass and feels solid. other than that my omnia works just as good i think after mods. Android is verry promisingthough.

[Asphyx]

Originally Posted by drift365

Its not the app store thats so great about the iphone. Its the hardware.

Yeah porting an App is easy as code is simply that code!

But try to use them without multitouch touchscreen!

There are probably WAY more apps for WM than there are for iphone...
So I don't know why anyone thinks the iPhone apps are the key to it's success...
It's the fact that the hardware supports things our phones do not and even if our phones hardware was capable of such things...Microsoft has saw fit not to update their operating system to support those features!

I like the iphone and android for one reason, cool apps. Those phones are useless to me because of everything they cant do. I cant wait for WM Marketplace to open, and I welcome all the new apps!

Those apps are cool because there are drivers and hardware that allows them to DO cool things!
We could EASILY do gsensor driving games and zoom if MS and HTC would build the hardware and drivers in that would support them!

But instead they seem to be stuck in the list and select method of operation...
I mean look at 6.5 titanium...Not much more than a start menu with notifications built in!

[RockSta®]

Lets watch as Microsoft glides its way back into the mobile OS market, lets watch as History is written, as Microsoft destroys the iphone and its affiliates.......muuhahahaahahahha....

Cant wait for this to get going, Man i hope WM7 kicks a§§

[RockSta®]

an iphone without the app store is like.........hmmmm.........an iphone without an app store!!!!