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Microsoft practices nepotism in Windows Marketplace for Mobile October 23, 2009 [Pocket PC phone] | By Edward J. R. Updated: Twikini explains the situation! See at the bottom of this news item! TouchTwit (see also our review of TouchTwit) is available now in Marketplace but Microsoft unfairly promotes Twikini despite the fact that Twikini has zero reviews, while TouchTwit has several reviews and most of them are positive! In other words: Microsoft is promoting and giving publicity to an inferior Twitter client!!! So, let's take a look how it looks like in the Windows Mobile app store of Microsoft called "Marketplace". On the first page of Marketplace one can see Twikini on top: 
... and in Showcase section one can see Twikini on top: 
... yet in reality Twikini has zero reviews and must be inferior to TouchTwit that has several reviews and most of them very very positive: 
To get to TouchTwit one must dig deeply or you can do search for "TouchTwit". Clearly TouchTwit is superior to Twikini and is 100% designed for finger-based navigation but Microsoft is promoting the inferior Twikini! * * * * * Commentary Microsoft's app store for Windows Mobile is very bad: Microsoft forces developers to translate descriptions and apps to other languages and demands $10 per country, so local national stores have few apps. Furthermore one cannot install apps from the app store to the memory card so many many kinds of apps (like GPS navigation) are not available at all. Generally only few people are buying apps through app store as one can judge from the number of reviews. By now Windows Marketplace for Mobile has been a failure. And now, to add insult to injury Microsoft is promoting inferior apps! Microsoft must change immediately their ways, because even the best hardware (such as HTC HD2, Acer S200, Samsung Omnia II, etc) will not be useful if number of apps in the Marketplace will be always so low... Update: Twikini explains to us: Marketplace has a bug due to which submitting an upgrade erases all reviews. Twikini had around 50 reviews last time I checked. ... so we were wrong about exposing lowly-rated app by Microsoft. Twikini posted updated to their app and instead of being rewarded, is being penalized by Microsoft's buggy Marketplace. Note: in Apple iPhone app store users can see reviews for all versions of given app, not just for the last version.  Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later) [ 1 Comment ]
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