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>they ran promotions for students and independent developers giving away free phones etc. But nothing was enough to get over the problem of the lack of an initi
by flyGuyOnTheSly 9y ago
>they ran promotions for students and independent developers giving away free phones etc. But nothing was enough to get over the problem of the lack of an initial user base.
Is anyone else surprised that "giving away free windows phones" was not a recipe for success in terms of incentivising capable app developers?
Most every app developer already owns their favorite phone because they can afford it.
- emodendroket 9y agoMost apps make a pittance.
- flyGuyOnTheSly 9y agoWhat does that have to do with anything?
- emodendroket 9y agoI think the idea that app developers are all loaded is highly suspect.
- flyGuyOnTheSly 9y agoSure, but Microsoft doesn't want to incentivize people who write mediocre apps that make no money to write apps for their app store. They want to incentivize people to write apps that bring in the big bucks. So they can get a cut.
- nashashmi 9y agoThey should have also given away free phones to end users. And for the other users who bought stuff, they should have given them 100$ of credit to buy apps. And then periodically rewarded great users with 100$. it would have been like a tax break for the users to spur the app economy.