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Some Games/App are available only for one OEM. Let's take Nokia for example.

  1. I buy a game called RISK (exclusive to Nokia) in my Nokia Lumia 800.

  2. Several months later, I buy another phone. For example, the HTC Windows Phone 8X.

In Windows Phone, app purchases are associated with your Microsoft account, so you can transfer them to a new phone. Does this apply to OEM-exclusive apps as well, even if the new phone was made by a different OEM?

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The short answer is NO. OEM apps are every manufacturers way to carry out marketing for their products, altough the port would be a piece of cake because i don't think you need to write out new specific drivers for a game(as an example).

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I have NOT down-voted this answer, but I was tempted to because (i) You haven't listed a source for your answer of 'no', a source might not be possible for this, but it would be useful. (ii) Since the hardware has to meet certain requirements there isn't really a need to port WP apps and the exclusive ones are just exclusive because they have paid to be so--you would only ever need to backport WP8 apps e.g. a WP8 Direct-X game to a WP7 XNA Game. – row1♦ Dec 10 '12 at 4:38
its a logical thing, dont you think? if i would list a source that pigs fly would you believe me? I say its not so hard to take a general look at things and get to a conclusion, but if you rely only on "sources", then my best wishes. As a second argument, nokia drive and city lens work on the lumia 610 and only has 256 of RAM, so you cant tell me that its a hardware constraint, can you? LOL – Freeman Dec 11 '12 at 10:03
Yeah I said it might not be possible, but I wouldn't rule out an official page from Microsoft/Nokia stating that apps downloaded from an OEM marketplace are different from the official marketplace or a page stating that you can re-download your timed exclusive app when the exclusivity period expires. For the hardware, I was thinking of something more specialised than RAM and specific to a single OEM e.g. new CPU/GPU architecture, sensor, dual screens, something that you see happening on Android. – row1♦ Dec 12 '12 at 0:29
yes, thats why the .NET Framework is used so its machine-invariant. And most people use .NET to develop the apps, so the hardware is not an issue from a Windows phone developers point of view. – Freeman Dec 12 '12 at 8:55

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