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Big loss for Microsoft.

+You can use in app purchase but you don't have to.

This surprises me. I didn't think they'd take submissions for the beta using the current preview sdk. There are a ton of issues and missing apis.

Psychology.

You can fault Windows Phone for the lack of apps but not for the usability of the OS itself. The OS is very polished. Use one for a couple weeks before you make a judgement call.

The OS is very fast. I have a Samsung Focus with a 1ghz processor and it runs much better than any android 2.x phone I've seen. I think Ice Cream Sandwich will finally add hardware acceleration (which Windows Phone 7 has had since launch) so maybe it will perform better.

Multiple reasons imho: They got a great deal from Microsoft that Google wasn't willing to match, the OS is beautiful, plenty of existing Xaml developers, great platform + language and better tooling than Android or iOS.

Just keep trying. Took me about 30 minutes of refreshing and error messages at every step to get one.

I saw your tweet. WTH happened? You do something you weren't supposed to? What happens to Rx?

I plan on blogging some detailed numbers soon for all my apps. Here is an example. This app does really well as a free app with ads. I have others that have done better as paid apps.

Sticker Draw Blog post with video http://ideaindustries.net/sticker-draw-for-windows-phone-7/

Marketplace link to free version http://windowsphone.com/s?appid=e80104a9-c243-e011-854c-0023...

I targeted the app at kids in the 2-8 year old range. I started out by making it a paid app priced at 1.29$. I released it early February. My thought was there is so much garbage out there something with a little bit of quality might do ok. It didn't. I also had trouble getting press from any of the wp7 sites. I added a free version using pubcenter ads in March as an experiment. I also put a "buy the full version" link on the menu.

Paid

93 purchases for paid version. It hasn't done well and I haven't seen an uptick from the buy the full version link. I did screw up here. I know some tricks now for getting better numbers for freshly released apps.

Ad Supported

89k impressions since launch 603$ in revenue Avg eCPM is 6.82$ (this is abnormally high but pubcenter does have high eCPMS) I'm getting 600-1000 impressions a day now.

As far as the development tools and process... I work in a shop that does all 3 platforms. I have some experience with Android and even less with iOS but I'm going to say this anyway: Windows Phone has the best platform and tools for mobile development. That may be hard to believe since the platform is so new but Silverlight is great and the tooling is mature.

Everything about it reminds me of Windows Phone 7.

This article wasn't about the design?...

It was about the amount of imgur links and lolcats that get pushed to the front page and which subreddits to subscribe to to have a different reddit experience.

I'd love to see a good comparison from someone with a good bit of WPF/Silverlight/Xaml and Cocoa experience.

Nice work. I can definitely see myself using this.

Tron Legacy Soundtrack or http://www.somafm.com (groove salad)

Hope like hell this isn't true.

Con artists are hackers too: Catch Me If You Can, Matchstick Men, I Love You Phillip Morris

TellMe is also used in Windows Phone 7 and it works great.

I saw Jeff Wilcox tweet a bit about this (don't lose him, he is awesome...so is David Anson). Good to hear. I love the phone and I think you guys are doing a good job.

I get the general feeling that most people dislike iTunes. Many of the same people like the Zune software.

In this case I think people just didn't try it. They already owned iPods when they were superior devices and never switched even when Zune passed them in quality.

Yes...except for this: Getting to focus on your algorithms and overall experience, and not dealing with ridiculous, time consuming, soul sapping optimizations which shouldn’t have to be discovered in the first place.

I work in a consulting shop that develops apps for all three platforms. I love my windows phone and I think the development tools and the framework are better than iPhone/Android. That said, there are some serious performance problems on wp7 and it takes a deep knowledge of the platform to avoid them. I've spent way too much time optimizing on wp7 just to get passable performance for a list of items with thumbnails. This is a such a basic scenario and it's extremely hard to get right. The navigation stack isn't good either. I like the back button as a user but dealing with scenarios where a user can jump to the first page of an app or when you need to navigate and avoid putting a page in the back stack and you run out of options.

Winforms? Yikes. Good luck.

Really? To me the Zune software is about 8 steps beyond iTunes.

The UI is great, lots of nice touches, looks modern, it's fast. I can drag music and such to my phone even if I'm using someone else's Zune software.

Wow. That is definitely a wake up call to execute. Motivates me to finish some hanging ideas. I'd love to see Mark's comment on this.

Nice work on phone 7 btw. I really enjoy it. I just wish scrolling performance wasn't so damn hard to get right. Since I wouldn't normally get your attention how do you go about getting an app featured in the marketplace? [whoring] My latest app isn't the most awesome thing ever but it's fun for kids and it tombstones correctly. http://wp7.apphab.com/sticker-draw-by-ideaindustries-net/ [/whoring]

Just downloaded it. Nice work! My only constructive criticism would be to make the text a little bigger in some areas.

What would I need to do to comply with the license for a commercial mobile app? Have attribution where I display the article or data? What does share alike do in this case? Would I need to provide a link to the source for the application?

#1) I don't get this one. WPF/Xaml/Silverlight is the best thing to come out of Microsoft in years. I really can't imagine doing front end development in another tech.

MossyBlog is full of shit. Who cares if Silverlight/WPF merge? Do you really think they would push Silverlight as the dev platform for their new phone OS if it was going to be replaced by html5?

Redirected me to a malware site on first visit...didn't the second. Your blog may have been compromised.

Silverlight contains a large subset of the .Net Framework in that 5Mb install. You don't need (and it can't use) the full .Net Framework.

I've seen mostly favorable opinions. Gizmodo's preview was about the same as Engadget.