Recently, Microsoft had revealed plan for its Windows Mobile version of App Store called Windows Marketplace for Mobile. The plans included charging developers $99 for their first five submissions and $99 for every submission post the fifth one. Twenty bucks per app sounds good, considering that not many developers would have five apps on the online app store. But now it turns out that Microsoft had one critical point hidden in the fine print — the five submission clause includes updates a developer makes to an already submitted app!

Microsoft has confirmed the same to mocoNews.net and insists that “this process is to make sure that the end user experience is optimal, and that the device and network resources are not used in a malicious way. We believe that $99 is an acceptable cost of doing business, in order to gain access to a universe of millions of customers that are interested in purchasing your applications.”

We ain’t convinced with Microsoft’s strategy and fear that it will only impede the development process of apps on Windows Mobile. Developers won’t bring new features and updates to get rid of bugs in their apps as frequently as they would prefer.