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Re:Microsoft gives up on Windows 10 Mobile by flyGuyOnTheSly on Monday October 09, 2017 @12:14PM (#15435114)
>they ran promotions for students and independent developers giving away free phones etc. But nothing was enough to get over the problem of the lack of an initial user base.

Is anyone else surprised that "giving away free windows phones" was not a recipe for success in terms of incentivising capable app developers?

Most every app developer already owns their favorite phone because they can afford it.

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Re:Microsoft gives up on Windows 10 Mobile by nashashmi on Monday October 09, 2017 @06:06PM (#15437860)
They should have also given away free phones to end users. And for the other users who bought stuff, they should have given them 100$ of credit to buy apps.

And then periodically rewarded great users with 100$. it would have been like a tax break for the users to spur the app economy.

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Re:Microsoft gives up on Windows 10 Mobile by emodendroket on Monday October 09, 2017 @12:17PM (#15435144)
Most apps make a pittance.
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Re:Microsoft gives up on Windows 10 Mobile by flyGuyOnTheSly on Monday October 09, 2017 @12:21PM (#15435190)
What does that have to do with anything?
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Re:Microsoft gives up on Windows 10 Mobile by emodendroket on Monday October 09, 2017 @12:34PM (#15435281)
I think the idea that app developers are all loaded is highly suspect.
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Re:Microsoft gives up on Windows 10 Mobile by flyGuyOnTheSly on Saturday October 14, 2017 @04:12AM (#15471266)
Sure, but Microsoft doesn't want to incentivize people who write mediocre apps that make no money to write apps for their app store.

They want to incentivize people to write apps that bring in the big bucks. So they can get a cut.

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