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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
#12This article reeks of astroturfing, something I see a lot from the Microsoft troupe. Other comments seem to support this. I get the feeling I'd like Microsoft's products a lot more if they didn't try and fake this stuff.
Re: My Windows 8 app approaching 100,000 downloads
#13The 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…
He's a Microsoft employee. It would take about 2 seconds to click the link on his name to see that.
Are you implying he is lying? Half of the iOS posts are from folks like John Gruber or Marco Arment. Are you suspicious when they write a post? Or when someone from Mozilla writes a pro-Mozilla post, etc? Are you suspicious that Apple may actually be bankrupt, because their earnings numbers come from a suspicious source -- the Apple CFO?
In this case he's giving useful data to those on the fence about Win8 developement. I see no reason why an individual would lie, given he doesn't even have corporate anonimity to hide behind.
With that said, the numbers look good and promising.
Re: My Windows 8 app approaching 100,000 downloads
#14Sometimes the anti-MS sentiment here is almost as silly as the gushiness of the MSDN blog post.
Given Windows8 sold upwards of 3million licenses within the first couple of days (and probably many more now), 100k downloads of a card game app seems pretty darn reasonable to me. This factor becomes even less surprising if the app is promoted in the Win8 app store, or if it is one of the few card game apps, etc. Also, this number is downloads, so maybe people grabbed it, checked it out and deleted it. I haven't looked into specifics. But given the size of the ecosystem, the number doesn't seem unreasonable.
To follow up on gushiness, as others have commented, this particular post was on MSDN which is a Microsoft property. Microsoft has a pretty decent infrastructure for developer support (and has had for a long while). A lot of people working within the Microsoft development ecosystem like the tools, the platform, etc. A person, employee or not, posting about his positive experiences is to be expected.
For myself, I'm eh on Win8. I see the "Metro" interface as an oversized task bar/start menu for what is a better/faster desktop experience. That said, I mainly use my Mac. The developer tools from Microsoft, on the other hand, I actually find are better overall than XCode, the android ecosystem, etc. For an IDE, VS is pretty good.
Re: My Windows 8 app approaching 100,000 downloads
#15The 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…
He's a Microsoft employee. It would take about 2 seconds to click the link on his name to see that. Are you implying he is lying? Half of the iOS posts are from folks like John Gruber or Marco Arment. Are you suspicious when they write a post? Or when someone from Mozilla writes a pro-Mozilla post, etc? Are you suspicious that Apple may actually be bankrupt, because their earnings numbers come from a suspicious sourc…
Yes I know, and from extensive experience, I'd trust the mouth of a 409 scammer more. Reputation as well as bad reputation are earned.
Re Apple: Bankrupt no - morally bankrupt perhaps.
Its not on the fence when MSFT issued Surface tabs to every staff member.
Re: My Windows 8 app approaching 100,000 downloads
#16The big difference between Apple and Android ecosystems that everybody spoke about at the beginning was that Apple users were willing to pay for apps and Android users were (in the beginning at least) less likely to pay up.
So here's the question for MS. Are your users willing to pay? The OP put up a graph about in-app purchases with no scale on the y-axis. To me that implies that there's no real money to show us yet. But I'm happy to be disproved.
Re: My Windows 8 app approaching 100,000 downloads
#17The big difference between Apple and Android ecosystems that everybody spoke about at the beginning was that Apple users were willing to pay for apps and Android users were (in the beginning at least) less likely to pay up. So here's the question for MS. Are your users willing to pay? The OP put up a graph about in-app purchases with no scale on the y-axis. To me that implies that there's no real money to show us yet…
You are forgetting the ad revenue here. this seems like a big opportunity to me.
Re: My Windows 8 app approaching 100,000 downloads
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
He's a Microsoft employee. It would take about 2 seconds to click the link on his name to see that. Are you implying he is lying? Half of the iOS posts are from folks like John Gruber or Marco Arment. Are you suspicious when they write a post? Or when someone from Mozilla writes a pro-Mozilla post, etc? Are you suspicious that Apple may actually be bankrupt, because their earnings numbers come from a suspicious sourc…
Yes I know, and from extensive experience, I'd trust the mouth of a 409 scammer more. Reputation as well as bad reputation are earned. Re Apple: Bankrupt no - morally bankrupt perhaps. Its not on the fence when MSFT issued Surface tabs to every staff member.
> Its not on the fence when MSFT issued Surface tabs to every staff member.
Quite the opposite, most Microsoft employees could only get a Surface RT in this first round if they went through the same retail channel that everyone else had to. I know two MS employees here in Atlanta who were telling me how they wished they could get one, but couldn't yet.
Re: My Windows 8 app approaching 100,000 downloads
#19This article reeks of astroturfing, something I see a lot from the Microsoft troupe. Other comments seem to support this. I get the feeling I'd like Microsoft's products a lot more if they didn't try and fake this stuff.
If you click his name, he's an MS employee.
Re: My Windows 8 app approaching 100,000 downloads
#20Sometimes the anti-MS sentiment here is almost as silly as the gushiness of the MSDN blog post. Given Windows8 sold upwards of 3million licenses within the first couple of days (and probably many more now), 100k downloads of a card game app seems pretty darn reasonable to me. This factor becomes even less surprising if the app is promoted in the Win8 app store, or if it is one of the few card game apps, etc. Also, th…
>A person, employee or not, posting about his positive experiences is to be expected.
He's not only an employee, he's a mobile product evangelist.