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Alright, I searched the WP Marketplace for the apps I use most often on my iPhone: Reeder, Instapaper, Evernote, Highrise, Dropbox, Nebulous, Bento, Pages, Num
by Samuel_Michon 15y ago
Alright, I searched the WP Marketplace for the apps I use most often on my iPhone:
Reeder, Instapaper, Evernote, Highrise, Dropbox, Nebulous, Bento, Pages, Numbers, Delivery Status, Soundhound, Articles, IMDb, WhatTheFont, Roambi, WolframAlpha, Tax Pro, PCalc, Soulver, MailChimp, myPantone, Prizmo, PicTools, Skype, Colloquy, Instacast, TextExpander, OmniFocus, and 1Password.
Out of those 28 apps, only four of them (!) are available in the WP Marketplace: Soundhound, IMDb, 1password, and Evernote (which, according to the reviews, is unstable).
Microsoft's approval process isn't perfect either, I noticed some pretty dodgy apps. For instance, there's an app that uses the Tumblr name but doesn't work (according to the reviews) [1].
Sure, there must be some replacement apps on WP7 for writing, calculation, and editing spreadsheets and databases. But not the apps I like, and which are the result of 3 years testing and learning many different apps.
Oh, and from the article:
"TSN Mobile: On iOS, you can install an app. On Windows Phone, just go to the TSN website and pin it to your start screen. Internet Explorer Mobile is a terrific web browser this way.
CBC News: Again, you don't even need an app. Simply go to CBC News and pin it to your start screen."
That's hilarious. In an article that promises to show that WP Marketplace has more native apps than is widely believed, the author ends up trying to convince us that web apps are better than native apps. In Internet Explorer, no less.
[1] http://www.windowsphone.com/en-CA/apps/37bdda4e-1c03-e011-9264-00237de2db9e http://www.windowsphone.com/en-CA/apps/37bdda4e-1c03-e011-92...
- gdharries 15y agoYou're right, you got me. As I'd mentioned in my blog post, these aren't crucial apps to me and so I've been fine to just pin the mobile web version to my phone's start screen. I've since updated the article to include apps that I've previously used and enjoyed: ESPN ScoreCenter, ScoreMobile and Globe & Mail. All solid choices. And by the way, IE 9 Mobile is pretty darned sweet, as is the desktop version.