100,000 apps published to Windows Phone Marketplace

Re:100,000 apps published to Windows Phone Marketplace by mtgx on Tuesday June 05, 2012 @10:04AM (#4068651)

I just wish they stopped with the "we have fewer apps, but are higher quality". I very much doubt that is true. In fact, if anyone did a survey, they'd probably find out that on average WP7 apps are poorer than on iOS or Android.

There are a lot of developers that just "rushed into it" and patched something together just to say they have an app on WP7, and maybe even get paid by Microsoft or get freebies from them.

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Re:100,000 apps published to Windows Phone Marketplace by Avalaxy on Tuesday June 05, 2012 @10:08AM (#4068664)

I guess you are right. I'm one of the (many) students who built 3 apps to get a free Nokia Lumia 800. To be honest: my apps aren't of really high quality. Why not? Well, two good reasons:

- Building 3 GOOD apps in 2~3 months is just not possible. If you really want to build quality apps, it will take more time (at least - if you're not working full-time on it... Something most people won't do because they are students and have jobs because they also need money).

- A Nokia Lumia 800 costs around $400. Let's assume the average hourly rate for a student is $30 (don't know about the numbers in the USA tbh): that's about 13 hours of work, or 4 hours of work per app.

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Re:100,000 apps published to Windows Phone Marketplace by ksk on Tuesday June 05, 2012 @11:29AM (#4069028)

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870355420457611...

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Re:100,000 apps published to Windows Phone Marketplace by fpgeek on Tuesday June 05, 2012 @11:47AM (#4069110)

Interestingly, that article is from January 2011. Off the top of my head, at least, I can't think of any apps that seem related to Google's reported mobile-app hiring spree.

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