‘A 99 cent app’ : A straight ‘NO’ from Microsoft

We informed you about the Windows Mobile Marketplace giving chance to the devs to display their expertise. Now the latest ride in the Marketplace World was taken at a petty MS dev camp where the team declared its intentions NOT to sell their apps at a price tag below $0.99. The folks at MS feels that their devs deserve much more.

Loke Uei of the Microsoft’s Mobile Developer Experience Team even went on to say: “It’s up to you play your pricing, but we would definitely want to promote that you make more money selling applications than selling your application in a dollar store.”

The winners in the Race to Market Challenge have quite interesting offers, so a tough battle here. Anyway, the price should match its utility after all. Let’s wait for the final showcase.

ASUS to release a linux based smartphone – but what about windows mobile?

Whether you like it or not, ASUS made the linux immensely popular with their netbooks. Now, after netbooks, ASUS is now planning to use linux in one of their two upcoming smartphones. This is TOTALLY contrary to what we have been thinking!
We all thought the ASUS has been committed to windows mobile. Asustek’s Chief Operating [...]