Apple (NSDQ: AAPL)’s AppStore is an manufacture gold-standard for integrated mobile application dispersion systems. It’s actually both a gift and a curse word. A curse word because all that app-volume has made it painfully obvious that Apple’s application blessing procedure is strain to keep stride – blessing questionable apps piece denying useful apps with no verse or reason. It’s also a gift because Apple’s massive AppStore and its legions of iPhone developers rich person pushed over 1.5 billion downloads across tens of thousands of apps in the past tense class. Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has nowhere near the figure of developers willing to crush out apps for its Zune HD platform. In fact, news on the street has Microsoft trying to play apprehension-up with Apple’s AppStore by wooing iPhone devs to develop applications for Zune HD. In essence, Microsoft is offering coldness, hard immediate payment to iPhone devs willing to bring their iPhone apps over to the “Microsoft” position of liveliness.
Daring Fireball has been contacted by an iPhone developer who was allegedly contacted by Microsoft. The iPhone dev was reportedly offered a “bucket of money” in reappearance for porting his iPhone Twitter node to the Zune HD platform. The presumption is that this particular iPhone developer, who declined Microsoft’s offer, wasn’t the only butt of Microsoft’s iPhone-to-Zune intiative.
Microsoft just recently posted technical documents that ar aimed at portion iPhone developers interface their merchandise to the Windows Mobile space. The docs outline the technical foul challenges (and solutions) involved in converting mobile applications to work with Microsoft’s mobile operating system. But, this is the first meter we’ve heard of any major mobile operating system seller actually paying a challenger chopine’s developers to switch sides.
Any iPhone devs out there have any experience with Microsoft oblation them immediate payment in substitution for making their iPhone apps more Microsoft-friendly? Drop us a line and net ball us know.