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The report notes that, "third-party developers have built more than 15,000 applications for Windows Mobile, but the applications are sold through a multitude of vendors on different Web sites".
Therefore, notes macworld, Microsoft is looking "for something closer to Apple's one-stop shop approach with its iTunes Store", although the company already has a proto-app store in the form of Windows Mobile Catalog.
These rumours have surfaced, as macworld points to a number of job advertisements that Microsoft has placed listing "the Windows Mobile marketplace ?the place to be' for developers wishing to distribute and monetise their Windows Mobile applications", as part of the actual job description.
