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Secret revealed: why there are only 600 apps in Marketplace (i.e. Windows Mobile app store)? June 29, 2009 [General] | By Edward J. R. You wanna know? Here we reveal the truth about it: Because Microsoft is refusing non-US developers !! Several developers have posted complaints about it for example here, here and here. Many non-US developers have several Windows Mobile apps ready, but it is impossible to submit them. App Store has existed for one year, so Microsoft have had a full year to organise this properly and are unable to do so. Epic fail! * * * * * Commentary: most of the American software is developed abroad (mostly in India), and Microsoft obviously doesn't get it. It is not just about outsourcing of software development but also about existence of very creative, very innovative companies - in countries all over Asia and Europe. Some of the most innovative and most successful apps for Apple App Store and for Google Android Market have been created by developers from outside of USA! This is mass-scale failure of Microsoft and it looks like in September 2009, when Windows Mobile 6.5 with Marketplace (i.e. Windows Mobile app store) is being released, the situation will not change: most mobile software developers will be focusing on Apple iPhone and Google Android. What is wrong with Microsoft? Do they really think that non-American developers are good only for outsourcing? That they have no creative talent and no innovativeness? ... that they should just produce software designed by Americans and shut up? Or maybe it is about Obama's "Buy American" initiative where American companies will be given an unfair advantage by being allowed into the Windows Mobile app store early...?  Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later) [ 10 Comments ]
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