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"We now have more than 70,000 apps in the Windows Store (the online app store for Windows) – apps such as Twitter, ..." Did anyone else chuckle that he felt he

by sixbrx 13y ago

"We now have more than 70,000 apps in the Windows Store (the online app store for Windows) – apps such as Twitter, ..." Did anyone else chuckle that he felt he had to describe parenthetically what the Windows Store is?

apendleton 13y ago
Perhaps to distinguish it from the Microsoft Store, which sells physical goods?
- sixbrx 13y ago
  If that's the reason (though I have my doubts), in that case it may have been a very poorly chosen name.
  - dangrossman 13y ago
    Microsoft has a long history of very poorly chosen names. There are at least 3 other Microsoft Stores -- their chain of retail stores (ala Apple Store), the online version of those stores, their multiple "Microsoft Stores" on the corporate campus that sell Microsoft hardware/software/books/swag to both visitors and employees predating the retail locations, and their employee-only online store.
    - kravlin 13y ago
      I remember working with IIS at one point, and an object had a name like "site" then inside of the configuration files you had other "sites" that configured your site. Finding errors for one was incredibly difficult because the other one kept popping up.
      - pessimizer 13y ago
        .net, anyone?
      - qu4z-2 13y ago
        Sql Server and MVC also come to mind as less-than-ideal names.
halo 13y ago
I grinned because I assumed it was a deliberate attempt to hurt Apple's "App Store" trademark claim.
k-mcgrady 13y ago
Could have been to make it clear they were only counting Windows 8 apps not Windows 8 + Windows Phone 8 apps. Probably just trying to prevent the media spinning the numbers.
codereflection 13y ago
And he didn't mention what percentage of those apps are of any decent quality. They're ruining the experience by pushing quantity over quality.
- jbigelow76 13y ago
  That's what makes the whole app store count metric such a farce. MS is feeling envious because it doesn't have 800,000 apps like Google Play does? Who cares? Of those 800,000 apps maybe only 8000 are decent, 800 actually good, and maybe only 80 truly essential to the platform. Until about a month ago I had been an Android user since the Google 1 phone, I think over the course of several phones I probably used about 30 or so apps, most getting only infrequent use aside from the ones like Twitter and my banking apps. Losing any of them wouldn't have been a deal breaker as long as my phone continued to work as, well you know, a phone. I switched to a Windows Phone recently, of my essential apps from Android I lost only one (INGDirect banking app). Whenever I browse through the Windows app store I keep hoping that Msft will purge about 69,000 of their 70,000 apps because almost all of them, as on Android and iOS, are pathetic facades over simple mobile websites. M'eh, rant over. Journalists will keep flogging app store penis sizes causes it russles the jimmies of each platforms respective fanboys and runs up the page views and retweets. I fall for it too but less frequently these days. But Microsoft does have a serious problem with the platform in not being able to play XBox video (even though WP7 can), they launched without it and it doesn't sound like 8.1 is addressing the problem either. Cutting themselves off from their own service, after they already had it no less, reeks of incompetence. It's almost comical that the only video you can play on WP8 would be considered "pirated" video. Apple would never have pulled shit like that.
- FireBeyond 13y ago
  Have you seen some of the horrific efforts that populate both the App Store and Google Play now? Let's not pretend that either Apple or Google are curating anything beyond "meets requirements/guidelines/rules", certainly not "brand-positive User Experience".
  - codereflection 13y ago

by sixbrx 13y ago

apendleton 13y ago

Perhaps to distinguish it from the Microsoft Store, which sells physical goods?

sixbrx 13y ago
If that's the reason (though I have my doubts), in that case it may have been a very poorly chosen name.
- dangrossman 13y ago
  Microsoft has a long history of very poorly chosen names. There are at least 3 other Microsoft Stores -- their chain of retail stores (ala Apple Store), the online version of those stores, their multiple "Microsoft Stores" on the corporate campus that sell Microsoft hardware/software/books/swag to both visitors and employees predating the retail locations, and their employee-only online store.
  - kravlin 13y ago
    I remember working with IIS at one point, and an object had a name like "site" then inside of the configuration files you had other "sites" that configured your site. Finding errors for one was incredibly difficult because the other one kept popping up.
    - pessimizer 13y ago
      .net, anyone?
    - qu4z-2 13y ago
      Sql Server and MVC also come to mind as less-than-ideal names.

halo 13y ago

I grinned because I assumed it was a deliberate attempt to hurt Apple's "App Store" trademark claim.

k-mcgrady 13y ago

Could have been to make it clear they were only counting Windows 8 apps not Windows 8 + Windows Phone 8 apps. Probably just trying to prevent the media spinning the numbers.

codereflection 13y ago

And he didn't mention what percentage of those apps are of any decent quality. They're ruining the experience by pushing quantity over quality.

jbigelow76 13y ago
That's what makes the whole app store count metric such a farce. MS is feeling envious because it doesn't have 800,000 apps like Google Play does? Who cares? Of those 800,000 apps maybe only 8000 are decent, 800 actually good, and maybe only 80 truly essential to the platform. Until about a month ago I had been an Android user since the Google 1 phone, I think over the course of several phones I probably used about 30 or so apps, most getting only infrequent use aside from the ones like Twitter and my banking apps. Losing any of them wouldn't have been a deal breaker as long as my phone continued to work as, well you know, a phone. I switched to a Windows Phone recently, of my essential apps from Android I lost only one (INGDirect banking app). Whenever I browse through the Windows app store I keep hoping that Msft will purge about 69,000 of their 70,000 apps because almost all of them, as on Android and iOS, are pathetic facades over simple mobile websites. M'eh, rant over. Journalists will keep flogging app store penis sizes causes it russles the jimmies of each platforms respective fanboys and runs up the page views and retweets. I fall for it too but less frequently these days. But Microsoft does have a serious problem with the platform in not being able to play XBox video (even though WP7 can), they launched without it and it doesn't sound like 8.1 is addressing the problem either. Cutting themselves off from their own service, after they already had it no less, reeks of incompetence. It's almost comical that the only video you can play on WP8 would be considered "pirated" video. Apple would never have pulled shit like that.
FireBeyond 13y ago
Have you seen some of the horrific efforts that populate both the App Store and Google Play now? Let's not pretend that either Apple or Google are curating anything beyond "meets requirements/guidelines/rules", certainly not "brand-positive User Experience".
- codereflection 13y ago