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Apologies for the assumptions! I think you're right that the number of items being shipped on a platform is a good indication, but there's no real way to tell o
by 72deluxe 13y ago
Apologies for the assumptions! I think you're right that the number of items being shipped on a platform is a good indication, but there's no real way to tell outside the walled gardens. There doesn't appear to be a massive take-up of the Metro app store, so I wonder if people are just ignoring it and still shipping native Win32 apps still? Or just nobody is writing anything?
You're right though - I haven't the answer to your question! I wonder where we can get some sort of metric of software being shipped for Windows? As nobody is really funnelling their software through the Windows store, it is probably impossible to get any concrete numbers.
Apologies again for the assumptions.
- ksk 13y agoHeh, no need for any apologies. My view is that the Metro app store will eventually take off. IMO Microsoft usually rushes to ship not-yet-finished products and which are then refined across successive versions/updates till people eventually accept them. But as far as native apps go, I have not seen many SMEs pop up to ship commercial software on that. In contrast small businesses pop up all the time to ship iOS/Android apps.