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I'm sorry? Do you think it's a bad idea?
Its a very bad idea no reason to develop for WP if so.
WP doesnt need android apps.
If anything, google would pay blackberry to not sell to Microsoft. This I do believe is going on as we speak. We still don't see anything from the driving app Waze. I would be surprised if it ever came to the platform and if it does, it would be so crippled, it won't be work having.
Missing apps, or fully-baked apps? I think the latter is more like it. There is a list somewhere on here showing the top 100 apps across each platform. WP has something like 85-90% of them now, so it's not as bad as you are meant to believe. Some are not official apps, yes, but some of those third party apps are better than the official app. My sis-in-law was looking for 6Tag for her iPhone because she likes the UI better. *shrug* There will continue to be some complaints for specialty apps but it those are the growing pains. None-the-less, the top 100 apps will satisfy most smartphone users. There is only one app for Android that I couldn't find on WP and it's a minor inconvenience to have a better phone with a better OS.With all due respect, I see many complaints here about WP missing apps compared to iOS and Android.
Missing apps, or fully-baked apps? I think the latter is more like it. There is a list somewhere on here showing the top 100 apps across each platform. WP has something like 85-90% of them now, so it's not as bad as you are meant to believe. Some are not official apps, yes, but some of those third party apps are better than the official app. My sis-in-law was looking for 6Tag for her iPhone because she likes the UI better. *shrug* There will continue to be some complaints for specialty apps but it those are the growing pains. None-the-less, the top 100 apps will satisfy most smartphone users. There is only one app for Android that I couldn't find on WP and it's a minor inconvenience to have a better phone with a better OS.
With all due respect, I see many complaints here about WP missing apps compared to iOS and Android.
I think most of the big name apps on Windows Phone are here or soon to be here now. Which apps do you feel are missing on your Windows Phone?
If the Android API and BB API have some differences then I could imagine there will be widespread issues with buggy Android apps running on BB. I mean if Android phones have issues with buggy Android apps then you can imagine the problems they will cause on BB phones.
I don't see the fuss over "official" apps. As long as it works and has the proper feature set, I could care less if it was developed by Honey BooBoo.
the issue is Sirius changed their code and there is no one way to listen to Sirius on a windows phone, even their mobile web app doesn't work because it requires flash. It used to work then Sirius blocked the code.
No longer developed but still widely used. Depending on what device I have handy, I still listen to Sirius thru the browser. This is the one and only app that I miss not having on WP8 and Windows 8.1 and really wish would arrive.Flash is no longer being developed. Adobe abandoned it so I guess it doesn't work on iOS either (which never had Flash in the first place).