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:
- You get 70% and Microsoft gets 30%
- $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.
- Available in 29 markets.
- 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.