"We now have more than 70,000 apps in the Windows Store (the online app store for Windows) – apps such as Twitter, ..."
Did anyone else chuckle that he felt he had to describe parenthetically what the Windows Store is?
Did anyone else chuckle that he felt he had to describe parenthetically what the Windows Store is?
Finding errors for one was incredibly difficult because the other one kept popping up.
Until about a month ago I had been an Android user since the Google 1 phone, I think over the course of several phones I probably used about 30 or so apps, most getting only infrequent use aside from the ones like Twitter and my banking apps. Losing any of them wouldn't have been a deal breaker as long as my phone continued to work as, well you know, a phone.
I switched to a Windows Phone recently, of my essential apps from Android I lost only one (INGDirect banking app). Whenever I browse through the Windows app store I keep hoping that Msft will purge about 69,000 of their 70,000 apps because almost all of them, as on Android and iOS, are pathetic facades over simple mobile websites.
M'eh, rant over. Journalists will keep flogging app store penis sizes causes it russles the jimmies of each platforms respective fanboys and runs up the page views and retweets. I fall for it too but less frequently these days. But Microsoft does have a serious problem with the platform in not being able to play XBox video (even though WP7 can), they launched without it and it doesn't sound like 8.1 is addressing the problem either. Cutting themselves off from their own service, after they already had it no less, reeks of incompetence. It's almost comical that the only video you can play on WP8 would be considered "pirated" video. Apple would never have pulled shit like that.