It's actually quite a positive article from a Windows Phone point of view. Or at least, it doesn't bash the platform badly. Nice to see an acknowledgement that the platform doesn't need 500k apps to be competitive.
Essentially they're saying that WP lacks the "killer" apps of iOS and Android but they don't mean stuff like Infinity Blade; they mean things like official BBC and CNN apps. I'm in agreement with them on that, while there are reasonably good free alternatives I would rather have the "proper" app for it. That however, is down to major companies releasing the apps, rather than small developers who in the mean time are doing a pretty wonderful job of generating content. I look forward to joining them soon! In a similar vein, Netflix has an app on the US store, but not the UK one, despite the service launching here late last year.
That said, the line about Microsoft working to "ensure that all top 25 apps (from Android and iOS) will be made available before the end of the first half of 2012." is very interesting. I'd not heard that before and if they manage it, it'll be huge for the OS. I guess it also puts a time scale on the long awaited Skype app
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