Reflexx
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LOL! What im wondering, is what the app selection has to do with the Windows Phone 8.1 update?!
Absolutely nothing. It's just an opportunity to throw a jab in there.
LOL! What im wondering, is what the app selection has to do with the Windows Phone 8.1 update?!
LOL! What im wondering, is what the app selection has to do with the Windows Phone 8.1 update?!
What's worse is engadget gave a very fair review, but cons was no google apps? Who cares! Does anyone who owns a WP miss google apps? I wouldn't even use any of them, but possibly youtube.
A lot of people don`t use Windows Phone because there are no Google Apps.
When you compare Android 4.4.2 and IOS 7 to Windows Phone 8.1 the biggest issue is missing apps.
Everything else is pretty much on par IMHO. I like Windows Phone more, just there are many apps I need for work that are not released on Windows Phone. I never noticed this as much until I went to a convention and to check in using my phone I either had to use Android, IOS or HTML5 (which sucked). Our company is rolling out a few apps now and not for Windows Phone. I need them. There are plenty of great games that are not released on Windows Phone even thou it has xbox live games. Many productivity apps missing. It isn't about the top 50 apps, most of them are there, it is about the 500k apps that are not there, and no I am not talking about the 200 fart apps, I am talking about legitimate apps that people use.
A lot of people don`t use Windows Phone because there are no Google Apps.
When I said this, ofc I know we have an app problem(I need Quiz up), I am a teen I hear all about my friends new apps but we don't get them . But I just thought it was funny how this had nothing to do with the update but they mentioned it a million times.LOL! What im wondering, is what the app selection has to do with the Windows Phone 8.1 update?!
...and what does that have to do with 8.1 update?
It's not like an OS update would suddenly create hundreds of thousands of apps.
Technically, they are owned by CBS.is cnet the technology world's cnn.
To me its not the lack of apps, its the lack of companies not coding for WP, I mean looked at how long it took for Instgram for instance. Its ok for the media to spout of about lack of apps, but they need to look at the ones refusing to make these apps and the excuse there isn't a demand for WP's
If companies start making these apps for WP as they are done for Android and iOS maybe there wont be as much to talk about.
The quality of most of the apps is actually better than on iOS/Android, as the infrastructure is better (both the design language implementation and the IDEs available. Tried my hand at Android development, after using Visual Studio for years, and believe me, it's UGLY. The frontend looks nice, but all the elements, e.g. navigational drawer, are so hard to implement properly that you simply give up. Of course, they provide more flexibility (you can fill a nav drawer with your own custom list items, for example), but the overall developer experience is not that good).
For Windows Phone, we have a few clearly set design guidelines, which are incredibly easy to implement (especially with the MVVM patterns and Data Binding), and that's actually the reason why there are so many crappy apps on the Store. Seriously, if I did not run into at least 5 "Features"/"Specials" apps (which detail the upcoming/existing features of bigshot apps, e.g. Instagram, Windows Phone 8.1, Facebook, etcetera) for each big name, then I haven't seen any. Now, when Microsoft accepts such apps, that does say something about the platform and its app store. Don't misunderstand me please, I love WP - but this thing truly disgusts me.
And CNET can go s*ck it. A few years back they were one of the most reliable tech sites, now they just feed on the fame they collected back then. They've been at their Appleballs-licking for the past two-three years, bashing any other platform, no matter how good those are doing.