Audible working on a Windows Phone 7 app, will be ready in 3 months

December 4, 2011 | By Surur

audible A reliable source has tipped us that Audible, the Audio book people, are finally working on an app for Windows Phone 7.

The app, which is in huge demand on the Windows Phone 7 platform will, according to an engineer, unfortunately only be available in around 3 months time.

Apparently Microsoft has been pushing very hard for Audible for get an app on the platform, and this is likely one of their “Depth” apps like Spotify and WhatsApp, which will largely be sponsored by Microsoft and which they just HAD to get on the platform to be seen as competitive.

On a related note, the WhapsApp app is also getting improvements, including Audio recording, in the next update.

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Tagged app, audible, audio books, software, windows phone 7.5

Anonymous

Good news!
Anonymous

I been waiting for this app for a looong time. But since they didn’t have WP7 version, I stopped my monthly subscription. I’m also disappointed at MS slowness of porting their apps to WP7. Where is Photosynth? Their excuse last time was they needed Mango, now that Mango has been out…where’s Photosynth?

http://www.facebook.com/tony.gorham Tony Gorham

MS? MS dont write these apps. Surely you dont actually blame MS for not rewriting apps for 3rd party devs?

Anonymous

MS doesn’t write Audible, but they did wrote

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Anonymous

MS didn’t write Audible…kudos on them for pushing this app. But Photosynth is MS app and its been available on iPhone for eons. MS excuse back then was Photosynth needed Mango. Now that mango has been out…still no WP7 version. I hope this delay only means a tighter integration with WP OS or Window ecosystem.

http://twitter.com/bigcraig01 Craig S.

It shouldn’t take this much blood, sweat and tears to get an app like this on the platform… I’ve been e-mailing and e-mail Audible asking for this… There’s no excuse for it to take this long… It’s not as if Audible’s been working on anything else… There’s no iPad optimized version… There’s no Honeycomb/Ice Cream Sandwich optimized version… What the heck else has Audible been doing??? Sitting there with their thumb up their rears? Moving on… Once Skype and this has been released I’ll pretty much have every app I could possibly want on the Windows Phone…

http://affar.myopenid.com/ Affar

I remember reading a blog by a former Audible employee who criticized their management in relation to how they are not focusing on the achieving the vision/goals of the company including the support for multiple platforms. So ya, they are dumb/lazy as you think
Anonymous

Audible’s software is crap. They are the premier audiobook online media company, yet they run things half-ass.

Anonymous

Welcome to the party, pal. Took long enough for them to come out with a statement.
Anonymous

Who?
Anonymous

Ive gotten around it – yes hacked a way to convert it to an MP3.
Wasnt that hard but yes it would be nice to listen to it the legit way on my WP7.
Anonymous

I think its not Audible issue any more and more of an Amazon foot dragging… the dynamics have changed with rush for market share and Kindle Fire trying to gain as much ground as possible before Windows 8 tablets hit the road.. also, did I hear somewhere about a Kindle/Amazon smart phone???
Brent Longstaff

I hope it’s true! I only have 2 credits left of my 24 annual ones, and there’s no way I’m forking over the renewal fee before they release a WP app.
http://twitter.com/Ki6FHX Dana Reed

Already closed the account because of this, but I’m glad to see this article… About freakin’ time! I’ve been emailing Audible about this ever since WP7 came out!