by MSicc on April 28, 2012
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About a month ago we were reporting about a survey that shows how satisfied Windows Phone users are. It turned out that the satisfaction index is head to head with iOS.
Within that survey there are more important bits. The tech site TNW also covered this survey. One of the big points they are reaching out was why users choose a platform. [click to continue…]
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The Windows Phone Marketplace was flooded with spam apps in the last month. So what do we count as spam apps, you ask? Here is a short list:
- website feeds (even if there are official apps like ours)
- mobile site wrappers (basically a mobile website that has an app to start)
- screenshot apps (really, they exist!)
- multiple apps where one app is also possible (for example real estate apps for each US city) [click to continue…]
by MSicc on April 16, 2012
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WinSource.com recently did a research about the Marketplace. Their goal was to check if the marketplace is really as worse as some people saying.
The result is that 76 of 100 apps are cross-platform; only 24 apps are exclusive to the Windows Phone ecosystem. [click to continue…]
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by MSicc on April 11, 2012
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Nokia is continuing to differentiate its own Windows Phones. The desired way at the moment is not only the hardware, but a bunch of exclusive apps Nokia provides.
And the Nokia collection at the Windows Phone Marketplace is getting a new member: usage monitor. [click to continue…]
by MSicc on April 6, 2012
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Yesterday an interesting article showed up on the New York Times. Microsoft is still paying for Windows Phone apps, at least for the “high quality” apps.
To be honest for me it is no surprise that Microsoft pays off some of the big app makers to support their Windows Phone OS. As we reported earlier, Microsoft has a – let us call it master plan – to drive the growth of its mobile OS. On point of this plan is to bring the Top 25 apps of Android and iOS to the Windows Phone OS. [click to continue…]
by MSicc on April 6, 2012
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In a recent market study, ABIresearch claims there will be about 36 billion app downloads this year. The major part will be downloaded on Android and iOS (83%), says the study.
Windows Phone itself will get only 2% of the whole downloads, believes ABIresearch. [click to continue…]
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In a recent post about Windows 8 and the Windows Phone SDK Microsoft talked about the current apps on Windows Phone.
With the release of Visual Studio 11 beta and the recent update to the Windows Phone SDK (also to make it work with the Windows 8 Consumer Preview), there were again questions about the app compatibility on future versions. [click to continue…]
by MSicc on April 5, 2012
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Yesterday the folks at All About Windows Phone published the new Windows Phone Marketplace numbers. Now there are more than 80,000 apps published to the Marketplace.
While of course not all of these apps are active or available to everyone, this is a big step towards Microsoft’s goal to reach 100,000 apps in front of the launch of Windows Phone Apollo. If the numbers continue to rise with this pace, the 100,000 apps mark will be reached by the end of May. [click to continue…]