[NEWS] Microsoft Posts Details on Porting an iPhone App to Windows Mobile

[D/\SH]

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
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[VenumX]

“ Originally Posted by D/\SH ”

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

original thread can be found here:

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http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/newreply.php?do=newreply&p=1084097

how has no one commented on this?! this is so exciting guys! this means there will be a lot of cool applicatiIons coming to wm that have already been developed for iphone! I just talked to a top guy in one of the largest iphone application developing companies and he said that they are really taking this seriously and are planning on porting a lot - if not all of their apps to windows mobile. They develop a lot of medical, productivity, and gps applications for the iphone.

[PsyChoTk]

this is a great idea, but i wonder how apple is going to take this news??

with the release of the TP2, i could skin it to look like an iphone then blast the iphone users, at work, out of the water.

[Mike20PR]

This is indeed good news for the end consumer that wants iphone like apps on winmo or apps they liked but wasn't made for winmo. without losing functionality with getting an iphone, I wonder how they will look though...

[forty01]

If what they're saying is going to happen, then this is off the chain. We could take advantage of everything we have and have our hands in their cookie jar too ;)

[tlpalmer01]

whats that saying having the cow and getting the milk for free,...i cant remember but that is awesome news....

[D/\SH]

yeah you guys pretty much nailed it but a little deeper thought. many people are drawn to the iphone because of the screen size and the applications that you can get which are more fun. the business user doesnt do the iphone since it isnt as friendly for business (net not fast either) like the wm devices are...... so does this mean now that we have the best of both worlds if developers do this constantly? does this mean struggle for iphone? is this the sign of rebound that wm needed to get back up and changing themselves to being popular worldwide again? this could be a huge swing of events especially with microsoft planning on buying out palm at the moment.... could you imagine webos (being developed by palm still) and wm owned by the same with capabilities to iphone apps!!!! wowwwweeeeeee that would be bad news for the apple fan boys.