Part of the problem with the app situation is due to MS themselves. They've treated the independent developer as a second class citizen, compared to large corp

Part of the problem with the app situation is due to MS themselves. They've treated the independent developer as a second class citizen, compared to large corporations. Large companies get access to undocumented apis and much more consideration and technical support than indie devs. It's easy to see that indie devs are second class citizens in the MS app space.