| [Other] App development for Windows Phone. Why is there still no app development for Windows Phone? Is the market share really that low or is there something more complicated to the reasoning. Is it harder to develop apps for? I just don't understand it. |
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 AlcoholPremium
join:2003-05-26
Climax, MI
kudos:3 | Market share means no incentive. Can make more money on android.
Also, android is the easiest to develop for, or so i hear from friends.
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 tobyTroy Mcclure
join:2001-11-13
Seattle, WA | reply to bobjohnson
They make you use Windows8 to fully develop an application, using the phone emulator.
That kinda put a stop to a lot of it. |
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| said by toby:They make you use Windows8 to fully develop an application, using the phone emulator.
That kinda put a stop to a lot of it.
Figures they would shoot themselves in the foot. I really like WP8 but I'm pretty much over not being able to use any major apps (bank, tv, etc). |
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Microsoft has a great developer environment and documentation (familiar to most Windows developers), but there's a small audience to sell your app to. Meanwhile Apple has a different developing environment (objective-C) and great documentation and a massive audience to sell your app to, and the users are willing to spend money. Google/Android has yet a third developer environment but uses the worlds most popular programming language (Java) and the biggest audience to sell your app to, but statistically are less inclined to spend money, so try to make money off ads.
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| I can understand why little guys don't work on RT development but I'm talking more about the big companies that already have apps for everything else, like tv anywhere apps, banks, or a lot of others I can think of. |
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