Nope. Dev's failing to innovate for WP. MSFT is your best friend. Resources and tools are there. Best of all free and Open Source.
And if you want to hire someone help. That's available too. This..... though depends on your resources.
Nothing but copy cat dev's on WP.
Where are the WP exclusive? Dev's lets see it.
I love ❤ MSFT.
As someone who is considered a huge Microsoft ****** by everyone that knows him and also as a VB Developer for the past 15 yrs I can tell you, drop the fanboyism and look at the facts.
Yes, market share plays a part. Naturally iPhone and Android have more apps\games developers for one reason, would you sell a product to a room of 100 or a room of 10?
Another reason. Ad revenue is huge, I know especially on Android, not sure on iPhone. You can open an Android app and be flooded every second with bs ads. This is strictly forbidden in WP. So why would the kid in the basement jump to WP when he can't make the same amount of money from ads because, lets face it, if he released the same app without the flood of ads on WP and charged a buck for it, people are extremely cheap and unless its made of gold they wont buy it.
Another reason. WP is overly locked down to developers. You can argue this but coming from someone who has released 100+ applications for Windows and is now jumping through hoops to get around a steady stream of road blocks in code, its a pain in the @ss to write an app in a week (if its possible at all) that would normally take a day.
Your points about development languages are pretty off. I write in VB, can write in C# and C++. If you were to ask, C++would be the language I'd have to say is the best way to go for the exact reasons the poster a few posts above me stated.
Do I agree that Microsoft has done an excellent job helping devs and doing what they can to bring more devs, yes but, Microsoft needs to relax the strong arm grip on the OS a bit to get more devs onboard.
Just remember, just because iPhone and Android have a million fart apps and WP doesn't, doesn't mean they have more devs, just means we get better class developer. I'll take quality over quantity any day of the week.