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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
  No, I haven't really, but this doesn't surprise me either. I have a feeling that Amazon is doing the same thing with their Android app store.

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
No, I haven't really, but this doesn't surprise me either. I have a feeling that Amazon is doing the same thing with their Android app store.