Not quite. MIcrosoft is focusing more of their attention on windows 10, not the apps. The other app engineers who have always built software for the other platforms are focusing on the other platforms. My guess is once Windows 10 is unified and complete they can focus on the apps at a quicker rate. Either way, it's still a success if the market grows. You can't expect people to drop all their phones and switch to Windows phone. It's a slow process.
I'm sorry, slow just doesn't cut it as even a tortoise moves faster than the rate progress we have seen with some apps. In regards to the early pull down of the apps referred to in this thread. I imagine this has everything to do with office politics, as most likely the dev teams who developed some of these apps have been let go in the mass cut in the windows phone division. Why else would just pull keys apps without any sort of replacement?
It's decisions like this that really shows to some people that Windows phone is indeed second class or third class citizen. Plus is there any wonder why overall market share has decreased?
Speaking off apps there is on app that makes me sick when I use it; that is Groove.
After Zune we have been left with a diabolical app that is not even worthy of being called a Music app. Three years it took to xbox music to basic functionality - what one would expect a media player to do - heck even WMP is even more feature rich. Why not just use their Win32 bridge and modernise it?
Sure it got better but with Groove it's a regression - you cannot manually refresh your library, deleting a song from the library removes it off the disk. You cannot even edit meta data in the app, heck even if you edit your meta data via the right click context menu in the file explorer the updated meta data doesn't even show in Groove. It gets better if you place the deleted file back into the music folder, it's still "gone" from your Groove library.
I wanted to listen to music while using Geck to create a mod and so thought I'd give groove a spin after all it's light weight. But it's not, it takes about 100 megs and is less functional than WMP Classic.
When you see that alarm bells ought to start ringing.
So you can understand why People are getting more and more frustrated, they are sick and tired of waiting.