Below is a list of apps that are supposed to work. Given that they were collected on a page that also lists instructions I can't link to the source...
Much appreciated on that point.
...but Google is your friend. Well not really, but it's useful...
Myself, personally; Google once was my friend and we went everywhere together. Then Google started bullying me with ads and became my frenemy. Next, Google's head swelled up so large it thought it just had a natural right to be involved in everything I did and connected to or looked at. Google screamed at me that I had to have a Google + profile to use YouTube fully and I'd better sign in to Google if I wanted to comment on a video. All I ever heard from Goggle was, "We are Google, we are Mighty! Google, Google, Google!" Google invaded my inbox with ads faster than my adblock could adapt. It got very tiring fighting Google all the time.
I decided, "No, Google, you are not the boss of me and you are not the only game in town." That little Google perched on my shoulder snarking at me all day long? I killed it. Killed it joyfully.
Google is a friend only to Google. New Google ate the old, cool Google long ago and users are becoming Google-Zombies.
Google ruined Google for everyone but Google...
As always, these apps will not be able to use the camera, so no check scanning in banking apps, even if they are listed as 'working'.
So nothing you can't do in a browser. Not sure why anyone would bother. I also wonder what metrics these banks are collecting when Windows Phone users log onto their accounts this way. At a guess I would think there will be some security repercussions coming from the banks. It's their App (built in house or purchased by them and monitored in house) and their responsibility to plug security breaches. I wouldn't doubt they see this as a security breach, this unauthorized distribution which is out of their control for updates and other critical security aspects.
Given how many apps seem to work with no developer modifications required, I honestly think it's a safe bet that many of these will be added to the store by the original publisher. It's just too easy not to. I'm hopeful!
Yeah, but this is a developer decision, not one users should be making. If I can intercept a crate of oranges slated for Walmart, paying for them even, it may not necessarily follow that the grower and distributor wants to see me selling them or would condone this rerouting.
Many developers simply may not want to be associated with Windows Phone. We've seen it before. It's sad, but it is also their right.
So now a question, given that MS hasn't officially released Astoria, would the store accept these as submissions once W10m has been released? At that time these could run, right? Interesting times ahead.
Submitted by whom?
Certainly a developer could submit their App for inclusion in the Store.
You seem to be hinting that anyone could submit the App? That way lies peg-legs and parrots.
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