[Birdsoft]

I am excited and yet a little concerned on this and would love to get some clarification.

1. Im starting with over 5 applications in my catalog that are not end of lifed and work great on WM6+ but wont submit them all until I see the performance of the store, thus already greatly limiting the quality titles in their store if other developers feel the same.

2. On just one of my programs I did over 7 updates last year(and felt this was a comparitively slow year for updates). I would really hope that those tokens dont count towards updates, or yes feature/fix updates will be limited for budgetary concerns. If this is the case they didnt really study the existing market that is in place as this is not a good idea.

And just like on the current distributors, if you have policed us coming into the program there is no super reason to completely re-test every update. The distributors like Handango and MobiHand are just as responsible for the content and they don't re-test every application to verify that something isnt snuck in under their nose. There needs to be some level of trust there and so update testing(which can be done) doesnt need to be as thorough a process and should not cost $99 to cover. It should be covered just fine in their 30%....

In the worst case that Ive NEVER heard happen, if a developer tries to game the system by "Sneaking in Porn" or anything like that, you remove the application once its caught and dont pay them and even if need be kick them out of the store.

3. I have applications that are on both Standard and Professional so do I have to burn a token on each. In that case I can submit like 2.5 applications total before Im being charged per submission.

4. If the seamless approval is like Mobile 2 Market and the current signing process, then I hope they do better documenting and explanations. The only reason I have not done M2M is because the documentation was unclear as to whether I would be rejected for small things that were done on purpose but may not follow exactly a certain vague UI rule, and if I would have to pay again to have the process started over. And I have went through the process and can do signing but that uses a token system and limited development and updates after you jumped through all the hoops of even getting it setup. And there was no good source to get a hold of for my questions.

5. It appears that they are taking away the shareware/trial nature of WM through the store so all applications will have to be re-written to be full versions. Im not sure how good a model that is, its the source of a lot of the mess on iPhone's AppStore. Hopefully they link "Free" trial versions into the main application's product page in the store and not treat it as a separate program like AppStore.