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Re:Purism announces PureOS Store by Sendotsh on Saturday January 19, 2019 @09:35PM (#18950595)
Microsoft couldn't even get their phone app store to a point where people trusted it and could get the apps they wanted.

I'm cheering for Purism as much (probably more) than anyone, but I think they seriously need to make sure they get this right, and give it the appropriate resources (technical, and people).

Re:Purism announces PureOS Store by Something1234 on Saturday January 19, 2019 @11:44PM (#18951169)
Their app store, period.

I remember it during the 8.1 period, all you would find is slow garbage. I can't remember using a single app from their store that wasn't a slow mess. I'm betting it is still the case with their app store too. It wouldn't surprise me that the same issues would hit the windows phone app store.

Re:Purism announces PureOS Store by SahAssar on Sunday January 20, 2019 @05:55AM (#18952427)
Really? I had a windows phone from WP7 up to one of the last released and one of the reasons was that most apps were fast, snappy and started pretty quickly, while android phones in the same price range (about 50$) seemed to struggle with basic stuff.

Of course there were exceptions, but IMO that wasn't the major problem.

Re:Purism announces PureOS Store by twblalock on Sunday January 20, 2019 @02:38PM (#18955105)
I remember all the scam apps. I would search for “Facebook” and there would be at least 5 apps with that name, all with the Facebook logo. The real one was somewhere in the middle of the search results, not at the top.