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I remember a strategy similar to this earlier in the Windows Phone lifecycle - maybe they weren't outright funding the dev teams, but they were offering large i
by josefresco 11y ago
I remember a strategy similar to this earlier in the Windows Phone lifecycle - maybe they weren't outright funding the dev teams, but they were offering large incentives. I'll paste a link here if I can dig it up.
- corin_ 11y agoHere's one example I remember, though only $100 offered per app: http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/19/4124548/microsoft-paying-developers-cash-for-windows-apps http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/19/4124548/microsoft-paying-d...
- rasz_pl 11y agoYes, I remember whole shops banging out garbage filler apps just to milk MS subsidies :)
- umeshunni 11y agoYeah - we were working on a startup idea back in '11 or '12 and MS offered us $2500 to build on WP first. It wasn't nothing, but it was also not even a week's salary for our team and building on WP would have taken more than a week.