Windows 8 apps are growing, but is it enough?

[crash1989]

This was tweeted out recently. Apparently as mentioned WIndows 8 app store is at ~ 80,000 apps which is decent. Better than Android IMO, Galaxy Tab 10.1 was a horrible experience for me .

Popular apps come to Windows 8

I hope this growth continues. 10,000 apps in 3 weeks is an astonishing pace.

 

[stmav]

Not only more apps, but some of the ones I have already have been getting updates the last couple of weeks. Good to see some devs keep improving existing ones.

 

[jwinch2]

I've only recently started using Windows 8, but after being on WP8 for several months, I am actually disappointed in the app selection for Windows 8 thus far. I really hoped it would be on par with the WP platform, but it isn't.

 

[rider2040]

I would love to see all of the apps that I have on my phone also be available on my laptop and Surface (hint, hint, wpcentral).

My dream is that my Windows 8 start screen would look just like my Windows Phone start screen (including a unified messaging app and unified 'phone' app). I know we're not there yet, but I can dream.

To me, this is the promise of the Windows ecosystem. I'll be really disappointed if they don't pull it off.