And you'll still have people ********. Especially the app junkies. "there ain't enough apps. Apple has an app that helps me pick out carpet for my garage and Windows don't". . . And so on.
Damn right they ********.
We don't have this for example, and we're probably
never getting it:
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And it's repeated in countless other markets. We only get the low hanging fruit or something the MS has specifically paid for. Let's face it, Instagram is about as low hanging as it gets app-wise and we're still in 'will they, won't they' phase. The number of the genuinely interesting niche apps, or hardware-combined apps ported from the iPhone? Zero. The number of those types of apps that start life in WP? Also Zero.
That specific problem doesn't matter to me since there's a limited amount to what I'd like to do on my phone and I can afford to buy anything else to do something better (notebook or tablet), so I just use my phone as essentially an organisation tool. I very rarely play games, if ever and even if I do I give up quickly because
1. I'm used to proper PC gaming so such a small screen becomes frustrating quickly for anything beyond the simplest game
2. I have no idea what I'm doing anyway. But it does matter to an increasing number of people who do more and more on their smartphones because they're either too dumb to use it on their notebooks properly, or their hipster limbs have become so atrophied that they keel over when they hold a >2lb device.
MS needs to up not just the developer wooing ante, but also the designer wooing ante. There's a false premise among the rabid 'anything but Microsoft' designer posse that Microsoft's attitude to flat design only makes it easier for bad designers to create reasonably good looking apps, which turns out to all look the same. It's true to an extent, but the best examples of flat design under WP easily transcends that and are among the best looking mobile apps every built. They may even have to crank out an OS X native version of their dev tools to make this happen since Mac-hugging designers won't switch for the sake of dev, and their Boot Camp partitions are probably ridden with viruses anyway since they're too dumb to be unleashed on Windows.