WMPowerUser and AllAboutWindowsPhone are now both reporting that the marketplace has passed 100,000 app!
You must be thinking about Android. I counted 33 dedicated weather apps (not including apps that have weather as part of a news app), 4 tornado apps and 2 earthquake apps (?). Not sure how helpful an earthquake app is, maybe your phone starts vibrating really hard? Anyway, there were at least a dozen more weather apps, judging by the icon, but they're in Japanese (?) or some Oriental language. Beyond Weather Channel or Accuweather, even 33 is overkill IMO.I wonder how many of them are weather apps? 20k? lol.
Yeah, it's great and all, but like Android and iOS, lot's of junk in there.
Numbers don't mean anything right...it's just another version of specs. So shouldn't WP fans not rejoice over numbers, but rejoice over quality? Sometimes I am confused of what the trend is around here.
How do you even know how much of it is crap apps? Have you installed and tried all 100,000 apps? Tell me how does one count/measure "quality apps"? What is quality to you, might be crap to me. So I think it's immeasurable, which means, under your qualification, we will never have a chance to rejoice.
To me the increasing numbers, at a faster pace, means more and more devs are developing for WP. That is something definetly worth rejoicing.
Since when did quantity not equal quality? Quantity equals more competiton. More competition equals more quality. It's the reason why the ATT/Tmo merger failed. More is better.
Couldn't agree more. Really, who uses more than 10-15 GOOD apps on a weekly basis. In the event you need a particular app, you spend hours digging through 10k fart apps before finding what you need. I think that the folks who run the Marketplace would do us all a favor if they screened apps for unrelated keywords that devs put in. If I'm searching for a weather app, I shouldn't have to weed through a maze of doodling apps because some slickster thought it'd be smart to put in a dozen keywords so his app would show up on searches.Quantity means I no longer can browse the Marketplace without planning to spend 3-4 hours to find a good 0.99 app. I used to browse for new apps every night. I have 185 active apps/games (another 75 deleted) and I would say 85% of them were installed more than 9 months ago, when it was easier to find an app.
Almost without exception, the only new apps I have installed the past 6 months have been those I read about on various sites. Have probably overlooked some real gems.
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Yeah, it's great and all, but like Android and iOS, lot's of junk in there.
Numbers don't mean anything right...it's just another version of specs. So shouldn't WP fans not rejoice over numbers, but rejoice over quality? Sometimes I am confused of what the trend is around here.
Haters will always hate. Match iOS & Android app for app and they'll b**ch about something else.You're on the money; however I do disagree ONLY in the sense that having over 100k apps at "least" starts to shut the critics up...if only a little...yes they still will say well look @ android/apple markets but at least it will be apparent to even them people/developers are starting to take win7/win8 platform very seriously...and "this" is a little proof