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> Not enough apps So the review says not enough apps, but not enough apps bundled with the phone or in the store? and what kind of app is missing?
by aikah 11y ago
> Not enough apps
So the review says not enough apps, but not enough apps bundled with the phone or in the store? and what kind of app is missing?
- sp332 11y agoIn the store. The author lists some missing apps under the heading "The app gap problem still exists".
- dagw 11y agoI'm a WP 8.1 user. The main problem isn't so much that there aren't enough apps or that entire classes of apps are completely missing, but that the apps that are there lag way behind equivalent Android and iOS apps in quality and features.
- MichaelGG 11y agoThe apps are also crappy quality, many just being wrappers for YouTube channels. The reviews are somehow worse than YouTube comments. Even their "top" charts have random crap in it like "FreeFlix Free Movies" or "Free Mp3 Downloader". For a while, MS was extremely uncooperative with trademark issues (Netflix had to get fake Netflix apps removed several times; other ISVs reported MS just wouldn't respond at all, even on well-known and obvious scam apps.) Even now, searching for "Game of Thrones" leads to a scam $5 paid app that doesn't even have a website. MS actually paid to help create this scenario. They were offering $100 or $200 per app for shovelware. There seems to be zero QC or curation or any sense of class in the Windows Store. So they get the downsides of a closed platform, with the downsides of just letting people publish crap. Even Google Play is better.