Windows Phone Marketplace free App Submission Limit Increased to 100!

February 27, 2011 — 2 Comments

Hey all you Windows Phone 7 developers, the floodgates have been opened!

Developers have been able to submit up to 5, free-priced application submissions for free as part of their $99 annual registration fee.  Additional free apps could be submitted for approximately $20 each.  Over the last couple of months, we have received many requests from developers to increase this limit, and reduce friction associated with app submissions.  In response to developer feedback we have increased the limit for free app submission from 5 to 100.

This change applies to every Windows Phone Marketplace Developer and is effective immediately.

Once you pass the 100 free app limit, you will have to pay $19.99 per additional app.

Go build some apps!

-Rob

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A mobile strategist and cloud architect at Microsoft, Rob has spent his career as an entrepreneur, advisor, developer, speaker, and author of bestselling books on mobile and wireless technologies. A pioneer of the smartphone revolution, he drove the development of the mobile app ecosystem from its earliest days and co-founded the world’s first cloud-based mobile device management company.

2 responses to Windows Phone Marketplace free App Submission Limit Increased to 100!

  1. Richard Matthias March 5, 2011 at 11:49 am

    Is that 100 free apps on the market place or 100 attempts at submitting free apps? i.e. if you have to re-submit because of non-aproval or because you found a bug or made an enhancement, does that count against your 100 limit? And if so, when does that 100 limit reset?

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    • Anonymous March 12, 2011 at 5:20 pm

      I’m guessing, and this is my logical thinking, that when they say submit, it includes:
      •Approval
      •Submission (those two may be linked I don’t know)
      •Updates

      I would like to know that if you redact a product from the Marketplace, do you get that ‘slot’ back or?

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