Apple does it and Google does it. And now finally Microsoft is doing it. There is no doubt that 3-party applications for mobilephones is here to stay and is big business. It will be interesting to see how fast popular iPhone apps will be found in the Windows Marketplace and if it really can give Microsoft and their mobile platform a new boost.

The application platform is Silverlight, so if you have .NET skills you would be able to make some cool and usefull applications for Windows Phone 7. Learn more about developing applications for Windows Phone 7 and download the free developer tools here.