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This is an exciting time for mobile app developers as the smartphone race heats up between the major players: Microsoft Windows Phone, Apple iPhone, and Google Android. As a developer, you are faced with an amazing opportunity to develop a mobile application that can be sold to millions of consumers worldwide using any of these platforms. Gartner predicts that by 2014 the smartphone market will boom, and there will be billions of dollars at stake.
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© 2012 Henry Lee and Eugene Chuvyrov
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Lee, H., Chuvyrov, E. (2012). Introducing Windows Phone and the Windows Phone Platform. In: Beginning Windows Phone App Development. Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-4135-5_1
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