Windows Mobile Marketplace

According to PPCGeeks the official Marketplace app for Windows mobile 6 and windows mobile 6.1 has been released.

Get it here ( US Only ) : http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/en-us/downloads/get-marketplace.mspx

for other countries : http://mp.windowsphone.com

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As you may know, the PC version of marketplace went live yesterday with advance protection..this is a “better” protection than the original “CAB copy protection” Marketplace offered. This “advanced” protection uses license keys that are verified when you run the application, and given out and controlled by Microsoft.

The hacker developer Chainfire , who is a well know member in the xda-dev community has managed to bypass the protection with a generic hack that will completely bypass the entire code snippet provided by Microsoft that is supposed to check and validate your license code,for all Marketplace apps.

The 1st copy protection took him 5 mins to break and this one in under 2 hours. He will NOT release the code ( which is an exe file that runs in the background, good on ya mate ) but wants Microsoft to take notice of the issue and allow developers to to use their own licensing systems. via xda-developer

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When the title of the thread reads ” Someone still working as MSFT or just celebrating Win7? “. It clearly depicts the frustration that the developer might be going through.

Some of the issues raised by the developer who goes by the name of MSWiege were

1. Update losses stars: If we update an application a new product is created in the dashboard but the already available reviews are not copied to the update, so we loose all our stars with every update.
2. Version numbers should not be bound to the update limitations: If we do an update of our app we need to increase the version number at the dashboard. As we already know by now, that is only because MSFT restricts us to only have 9 free updates for every app and pay 99$ again for the 10th update. Even if this is a discussion by itself, this “counter” should not be bound to the version number shown in the marketplace. The number shown should be a freely selectable number of the developer (like v2.4.2). The counter of the updates should be reset to 0 for everyone after this fix is made, because most of us had posted the app as e.g. v.1.8 what would result in having only two updates available instead of nine.
3. Application failed for no reason: Maybe this is just me, but I reported about 6 weeks ago that one of my application for the UK market has failed certification for no reason. I already got confirmed from MSFT employee Mike Liu, that it is an error and the app should have passed, but it still shows as error in my dashboard and that’s why I can’t send it to the market. Mike said I could do an update as workaround, but I don’t want another app have a mismatch between the shown version number and the actual version number of the app (see no. 2).
4. W8BEN-forms are not getting processed: Two month ago I had an eMail conversation with Bill Hurwitz of MSFT and asked him about the W8BEN-form I had send to MSFT about 1 week earlier. This forms reports the US tax number needed for every non-US developer to get payed by MSFT. The response was, that they are processed soon and I will be contacted. I now have resend my form while I was in the US about 3 weeks ago just to be sure that it gets there – but still no response what so ever.
5. Using non-US credit card on US marketplace gives “Marketplace could not connect because the server is unavailable”: If you try to buy a product from the US marketplace using the emulator from outside of the US, you end up with a “Marketplace could not connect…” error after entering your non-US credit card information. This maybe would nothing much to worry about if there wasn’t also this:
6. No ability to switch to other markets: Customers (nor developers) are able to switch to another market to get application there. Because in some countries are soooo few applications available it is very important to be able to switch to other markets to buy applications there. For developers it is very important too, to be able to see his products on other markets for real – instead of the Dashboard having this next issue:
7. Stars in Dashboard always show 5 stars (once it has at least on review), no matter how many stars the application really has.
8. Availability for WM6.1 and Web: Finally we are still waiting for the Marketplace to be available for WM6.1 and the web online catalog.

Read the full article here : ( more developers are adding to the list of problems )

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While with the release of WM6.5 just around the corner. Windows Mobile Users will be having access to the Windows Mobile Marketplace on this new OS from Microsoft. Unfortunately older version of the OS will not get access to the Appstore right away. MoDaCo is reporting that the Windows Mobile App Store will be hitting WM6 and WM6.1 user as early as November. Hopefully with the release of the Appstore , we might see more Pocket PC Software for Windows Mobile.

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