Why Publishing on the Windows Phone is Like Walking Barefoot On Broken Glass

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Post by Beat-O » Sat, Jul 14, 2012, 12:16 AM UTC

Our story of why publishing on the Windows Phone Marketplace is horrible in many, many ways. How arbitrary and moralistic is the certification policy, the numbers are low, international developers ignored... The list goes on. We'd be happy to hear about your experiences.

Why Publishing on the Windows Phone is Like Walking Barefoot On Broken Glass
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Re: Why Publishing on the Windows Phone is Like Walking Barefoot On Broken Glass

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Post by BadassFractal » Sat, Jul 14, 2012, 2:14 AM UTC

Does anybody have a positive experience with publishing to the Windows app store that they'd like to share?

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Post by latch » Sat, Jul 14, 2012, 2:20 AM UTC

I'm not sure why they don't just pull the app. They admit that it's bringing them virtually no users and it's a frustrating experience. With only a 1.3% market share (1), what reasons can there be to bother with it?

(1) http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/?p=32494

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Post by batgaijin » Sat, Jul 14, 2012, 2:25 AM UTC

They say it's the same problem they would have with the apple/andorid store.

Big corp doesn't have nice ways of changing shit, this isn't specific to M$.

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Post by jpxxx » Sat, Jul 14, 2012, 2:31 AM UTC

It know it's one of those irrational "the things you can't say on TV are the things you can't say on TV" kind of situations, but sexual innuendo and financial software don't mesh.

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Post by pooriaazimi » Sat, Jul 14, 2012, 2:32 AM UTC

latch wrote: post #3

I'm not sure why they don't just pull the app. They admit that it's bringing them virtually no users and it's a frustrating experience. With only a 1.3% market share (1), what reasons can there be to bother with it? (1) http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/?p=32494

Funny thing is that the ancient, discontinued Windows Mobile has 2.9% market share, more than twice of that of Windows Phone 7 Mobile Pocket edition, released October 2010 (21 months ago)!

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Post by sp332 » Sat, Jul 14, 2012, 2:37 AM UTC

jpxxx wrote: post #5

It know it's one of those irrational "the things you can't say on TV are the things you can't say on TV" kind of situations, but sexual innuendo and financial software don't mesh.

I know, I thought it was a bit too much. They really can't see how some people might be offended?

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Post by deerpig » Sat, Jul 14, 2012, 2:39 AM UTC

So much for Balmer's "developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers developers...."

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Post by jmck » Sat, Jul 14, 2012, 2:50 AM UTC

this article wasn't that interesting, most of their problems came from them trying to publish from a country that MS didn't want or care about in their store, and when they tried to circumvent it, they ended up screwing themselves in even more.

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Post by stickfigure » Sat, Jul 14, 2012, 2:51 AM UTC

batgaijin wrote: post #4

They say it's the same problem they would have with the apple/andorid store. Big corp doesn't have nice ways of changing shit, this isn't specific to M$.

Apple can treat their developers like shit because they provide access to an enormous marketplace of users. If Microsoft thinks that they can operate the same way, the windows phone platform will be stillborn.