Are apps coming to the Xbox 360?

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Everyone wants apps for everything these days. Apple popularized the system with the iPhone and competitors have been snapping at their heels ever since. Microsoft use Silverlight to make apps for their Windows 7 phone, which works on both phones and desktops.

Now it wants developers to work on Silverlight for Xbox 360. Is the console about to get its own wave of apps? There’s a host of useful extras already on the 360, but if Silverlight opened up to third-party developers we could see some really interesting stuff.

It’ll likely be a while before we hear anything else, perhaps this will be a big feature reveal at next year’s E3?

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RhadamanthinePosted:

XxmoddedyamomxX wait so what can the app do on the windows 7 phone


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iiLiV3STr3aM4uPosted:

Fingers crossed they have Doodle Jump (YN)

-Olu-Posted:

idk what apps they can put on the xbox.. they already have games in the marketplace and news on the dashboard. maybe a weather app?

XxmoddedyamomxXPosted:

wait so what can the app do on the windows 7 phone

JAB412Posted:

that would be awesome

FanboyPosted:

I hope so.... that would make the 360 even better, and give me more reasons to argue with my cousin saying 360 is better :)

spy4561Posted:

xCooki3 to be honest i hope not im getting sick of seeing everything and someones playing some new app, unfourtnatly xbox as it is right now its the closet new thing we have to the old, i dont want it to change into the xbox 360 turning into a app360

An App store type thing on the Xbox 360 would be a good improvement because they arent making a new console in a while because of Kinect so it would be nice to see that

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Cooki3Posted:

to be honest i hope not im getting sick of seeing everything and someones playing some new app, unfourtnatly xbox as it is right now its the closet new thing we have to the old, i dont want it to change into the xbox 360 turning into a app360