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Re:Developers: Don't Treat the Windows Store like the iOS Ap... by cooldeal on Thursday October 18, 2012 @04:45PM (#4671016)
Good points in the article, although I didn't like the condescending tone of "step into my office for a talk".

Reminds me of the Sparrow mail client[1], which shut down in spite of having a great product. Also, allowing a trial period and own in-app purchases is a good move by Microsoft.

Also, how are the Mac OS X App Store developers and prices faring? I think that's an important point of comparison that the author failed to make.

[1] http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/07/you-sh...

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Re:Developers: Don't Treat the Windows Store like the iOS Ap... by Aaronontheweb on Thursday October 18, 2012 @05:16PM (#4671162)
Author here; sorry that you didn't like the tone - was trying to do something different stylistically and I can see how it comes across as condescending. That was not my intention :(

I don't have as much data on the OS X app store - but prices do trend towards traditional desktop economics moreso than native app economics.

Windows 8 will be interesting, because it's not just the desktop ecosystem - it's also tablet and phone too. However, as I pointed out - I think the dominant devices in market will be X86 and X64 for some time to come.

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