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On Windows Phone / Windows 8 this problem is even bigger. No matter how much effort you put in to build the best app in its genre, earning even $100 per month i

by Avalaxy 12y ago

On Windows Phone / Windows 8 this problem is even bigger. No matter how much effort you put in to build the best app in its genre, earning even $100 per month is extremely hard. I know a lot of Windows developers who are serious about building apps for those platforms, and none of them makes $100 per month or more from those apps.

lifeisstillgood 12y ago
Have you more on this - I assumed winphone would be so limp in the market that no one would develop for it, leading to the big wins for the few that bothered. I am assuming I have been proven wrong by the market. But would like to know
- jbigelow76 12y ago
  There are a handful that seem to get touted as the poster children for viable Windows app developers. Atley Hunter who has 500+ apps in the ecosystem (currently all phone targeted but a recent podcast mentioned he was moving to Universal development so that they can run on Win 8 too), he looks for trends (like "Don't tap the white tile" type stuff) and then implements them in the Windows Phone store. Then there is Rudy Huyn, another full time Windows Phone dev that targets the "flagship" type apps that MS is dinged for not having on their platform, think Instagram or Vine before they finally released an "official" app and now Tinder. His MO seems to be reverse engineering the HTTP apis and delivering a client app that works with those services. I'm not aware of any Windows Phone app developers like iOS's Marco, where a single well executed app was enough to sustain a developer over a long cycle. But I could be missing somebody in one of the other markets, Windows Phone does well in GB, France and Italy among other non-North American markets.
  - lifeisstillgood 12y ago
    Sounds very much like the German brothers who go round making French German Spanish language versions of bi popular sites. Nothing particularly wrong but just odd the innovation stays on the iOS / android areas
    - rahimnathwani 12y ago
      Samwer?
      - lifeisstillgood 12y ago
        Thank you !
    - jbigelow76 12y ago
      >Nothing particularly wrong but just odd the innovation stays on the iOS / android areas I think this is one of those "correlation != causation" times. There is nothing that is more innovation conducive about iOS/Android vs Windows Phone (or Tizen, etc...), it's just where the people happen to be. If Palm/WebOS had caught on like wild fire instead of the iPhone you'd be asking why the innovation stays there and the iOS app store is relegated to knock offs and trend chasing.

by Avalaxy 12y ago

lifeisstillgood 12y ago

Have you more on this - I assumed winphone would be so limp in the market that no one would develop for it, leading to the big wins for the few that bothered. I am assuming I have been proven wrong by the market. But would like to know

jbigelow76 12y ago
There are a handful that seem to get touted as the poster children for viable Windows app developers. Atley Hunter who has 500+ apps in the ecosystem (currently all phone targeted but a recent podcast mentioned he was moving to Universal development so that they can run on Win 8 too), he looks for trends (like "Don't tap the white tile" type stuff) and then implements them in the Windows Phone store. Then there is Rudy Huyn, another full time Windows Phone dev that targets the "flagship" type apps that MS is dinged for not having on their platform, think Instagram or Vine before they finally released an "official" app and now Tinder. His MO seems to be reverse engineering the HTTP apis and delivering a client app that works with those services. I'm not aware of any Windows Phone app developers like iOS's Marco, where a single well executed app was enough to sustain a developer over a long cycle. But I could be missing somebody in one of the other markets, Windows Phone does well in GB, France and Italy among other non-North American markets.
- lifeisstillgood 12y ago
  Sounds very much like the German brothers who go round making French German Spanish language versions of bi popular sites. Nothing particularly wrong but just odd the innovation stays on the iOS / android areas
  - rahimnathwani 12y ago
    Samwer?
    - lifeisstillgood 12y ago
      Thank you !
  - jbigelow76 12y ago
    >Nothing particularly wrong but just odd the innovation stays on the iOS / android areas I think this is one of those "correlation != causation" times. There is nothing that is more innovation conducive about iOS/Android vs Windows Phone (or Tizen, etc...), it's just where the people happen to be. If Palm/WebOS had caught on like wild fire instead of the iPhone you'd be asking why the innovation stays there and the iOS app store is relegated to knock offs and trend chasing.