My Windows 8 app approaching 100,000 downloads
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My Windows 8 app approaching 100,000 downloads
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Re: My Windows 8 app approaching 100,000 downloads
#2Yes, and Karl Rove reported that Obama won Ohio. Don't trust the source.
Re: My Windows 8 app approaching 100,000 downloads
#3I don't know why the OP talks about a 'gold rush' when he's only showing download numbers. If his in-app purchases actually convert at a reasonable rate, THEN that'd be something.
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#4> "I now have some very hard numbers that support the fact that users from all age groups love Windows 8! First, the download and purchase stats."
Correlation doesn't imply causation. It could be that people downloaded your app to distract themselves from the pain and frustration of using that operating system.
Re: My Windows 8 app approaching 100,000 downloads
#5Yes, and Karl Rove reported that Obama won Ohio. Don't trust the source.
Obama did win Ohio...should we deny that fact just because Rove said it?
Re: My Windows 8 app approaching 100,000 downloads
#6The fact this is pumped out by someone with an MSDN blog makes me suspicious. Very gushy. As a Microsoft gold partner, this gushiness is not universal. In fact most of us are currently being fucked with extortionate licensing changes and are considering bailing out.
For reference, out of our 5500 individual clients, we've got one single windows 8 user and they're internal testing team. That spans pretty much everyone from small businesses to corporations. We have seen a growth in win7 vs winxp though since win8 was released.
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#7Consumers may or may not "love windows 8" but this article is swimming in non sequitur.
But I get it.
To frame this post in context, from my stint at Microsoft I saw how serious points are awarded to those who beat the drums. Logic be damned; if your W8 app get 100K downloads and your glowing blog post makes the rounds it's a favorable line item on your review.
So it's hard to comprehend for a lot of us, but when Microsoft says that Windows 8 is the most openly developed operating system in the world, I think they honestly believe it. Believing it brings tangible rewards.
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#8This reads like an infomercial... like someone was paid to write it.
Re: My Windows 8 app approaching 100,000 downloads
#9Consumers may or may not "love windows 8" but this article is swimming in non sequitur. But I get it. To frame this post in context, from my stint at Microsoft I saw how serious points are awarded to those who beat the drums. Logic be damned; if your W8 app get 100K downloads and your glowing blog post makes the rounds it's a favorable line item on your review. So it's hard to comprehend for a lot of us, but when Mic…
As a partner, we get a view inside the organisation occasionally. What we see is almost what you've described, but I think its more a crazy mix of Stockholm syndrome, dictatorship propaganda and everyone clambering over each other to suck dick.
It scares the shit out of me that so many businesses trust this culture.
Re: My Windows 8 app approaching 100,000 downloads
#10This reads like an infomercial... like someone was paid to write it.
I'm pretty sure the guy's an evangelist for Microsoft. The article seems so over the top that it's infomercial territory.