Loco5150
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Yes I agree with him 100%, and its sad. Microsoft should still ride this out. They have the money for it. WP will pick up, but it will take a long time and loads of money.
Use the damn mobile website instead!
Have y'all seen the freaking swarm of official apps coming recently???? I give it another year and the app gap will be gone!
I've never understood why an app is needed for all these websites. Apps for BBC News, BBC Weather, BBC Sport, BBC This, BBC That, BBC Other... Just browse the website!
Of course, what do I know?! I'm not an app-monster, I have just a smattering installed, none of them linked to websites.
Good god... how many freaking apps does a person need?? People need an app to flush their ****ter...and if the official app is not available on WP, than it's a no go! I've been using WP since WP7 was released, and I've never had more than a handful of apps on my phone... a weather app, news, mint, a couple others, and that's it. I'm so sick of hearing about apps. Use the damn mobile website instead! 99% of the time it's a better experience than an app anyway.
Yeah I had the Samsung Focus WP7 it was my first WP I didn't know much about apps so I didn't download as much. But yeah mobile website is better at times. Also people forget phones are used for calling and texting but alas not anymore they're just miniature PCs.
Microsoft should make a Windows Phone launcher for Android
Exactly what Joe Belfiore said last year.
Good luck with that.
I wonder what's going on. This week we've had Ed Bott and Tom Warren saying they're ditching WP and, on Windows Weekly yesterday, Thurrott and MJF gave a virtual epitaph for WP. None of them have reported even rumors that MSFT is dropping WP but they must be hearing something (vague hints). Of course, you could say that MSFT has been screaming that WP is dead recently by:
1. Releasing apps for all their services on iOS and Android
2. Talking about services more than platforms
3. Removing the Metro UI from Windows
4. Adding Android as a Visual Studio 2015 target
Maybe I'm funny about this - but I don't see the lack of apps as Microsoft's problem. I see it as the app developer's problem. If I want an app on my phone, and it's not there, I complain to the app developer - not the phone maker. Blaming Microsoft for the lack of apps is like blaming your car manufacturer for potholes in the road. If I want Amazon Music on my Windows Phone, I damn well better be complaining to Amazon. We the customers have to demonstrate a demand for the app and we have to make sure the people who nominally make the app *know* we want it.
It's not like Microsoft doesn't make their tools available for free (Visual Studio Community Edition). The two factors that contribute to a lack of apps are demand and bias. If they are biased against Microsoft, then they won't see a need to develop in the first place; and if we don't demand the app developer make a Windows Phone app, they won't know that their bias is incorrect.
I gotta jump on-board here with the idea that if or when they miss the boat again next year, i to will be looking to another platform.
I really hope this does not happen en MS surprise all of us and the competition with unforeseen greatness! Fingers crossed WP fan's
Owner of a Lumia 830
Idk how the hell aPP\e is still alive it's fake image? That the world see's it as.But isn't this the case with every tech company? Apple, Samsung, Microsoft - they tease us with previews and then when the product is finally released we are all under-whelmed. Sure the iPhone 6 sold like crazy, but at the end of the day was it really a game changer? People have been saying Apple is going to collapse for years now - the same with Samsung.
Idk how the hell aPP\e is still alive it's fake image? That the world see's it as.