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The thing I don't get is, isn't the Windows App Store only available to Windows 8? Microsoft definitely haven't sold a billion licenses to Windows 8, so where d
by codeka 14y ago
The thing I don't get is, isn't the Windows App Store only available to Windows 8? Microsoft definitely haven't sold a billion licenses to Windows 8, so where does that claim come from?
- Zirro 14y ago"A worldwide app store with over 1 billion potential users!" That would be a "potential" amount of Windows 8 users. Not now, but in the future. I can't say that them having to resort to using imaginary amounts of future users would make me feel any safer about developing for their app store.
- felipeko 14y agoThis is just a PR gamble with the numbers. They are saying for the past 2 years. And that probably means that Android outsold Windows this year, or else they wouldn't have used "last 2 years". Going by Android's growth rate and Windows' saturation, i would say this is a good guess.
- azakai 14y agoIt's even worse. Look at slide 24 in http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2012/12/mary-meekers-2012-internet-trends.html http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2012/12/mary-meekers-2012-internet-t... for the overall trend. Counting all computing devices - PCs, smartphones, tablets (and that's what matters in the app market) - Windows used to have 95% of that market, but iOS and Android are quickly reducing that and the Windows figure is now 35%. The last time Windows had such low market share was around 1984. But then Windows was rapidly rising, today it is rapidly declining.
- jimbokun 14y agoThat is an amazing slide show! Stuff I kind of sort of already knew, but numbers and charts really bringing home the magnitude of some of the changes, challenges, and opportunities in front of us.