Mark Arteaga

You may or may not have heard about Windows Marketplace for Mobile but Microsoft recently announced the developer strategy for the Marketplace.

As a developer myself here are the key facts:

1. You get 70% and Microsoft gets 30%
2. $99/year and you can have up to 5 applications in the marketplace.  After that it’s $99/app/year.  If you are in the DreamSpark program, it’s free.
3. Available in 29 markets.
4. Doors open sometime in Spring 2009.

If you are serious about selling your apps this is not a bad price to pay to be part of the Marketplace.  The pricing is similar to iPhone App Store and that has been pretty successful.   I just hope Microsoft gets some good market penetration with Windows Mobile 6.5 and get a large user base to buy the apps!

The Windows Mobile Team blog has a lot more details on Marketplace for Mobile and a video with the product manager for Marketplace.