It has taken two months for the Windows Phone 7 marketplace to hit the landmark of 4,000 applications, a feat which took Android five months. Al Hilwa, an analyst with research firm IDC said:
The Windows Phone 7 Marketplace reaching 4,000 apps two months after launch has to be one of the most rapid ramp-ups in recent times, reaching this milestone faster than Android, which took from October 2008 to March 2009 to reach about the same level.
We can say that for a company that just a few months ago was an also-ran in mobile, having 10 smartphones released in 30 countries is not a trivial achievement. I would not be surprised if Microsoft had the third largest app portfolio in the industry by the middle of next year.
Oooh…beating out RIM, Nokia and Palm? That’d be hard! As Engadget rightly points out, this doesn’t mean an awful lot, especially since Microsoft is notoriously developer friendly. What use are thousands of apps, if there aren’t hundreds of thousands of phones to send them to?
Wm phone 7 is a stupid piece of invention. Imagine it does not support the windows market place in Kenya. Brilliant!!!
Kenya? Really?
Yes…many people hve bought these phones in Kenya but there’s no point if we can’t download any apps here
“….especially since Microsoft is notoriously developer friendly”… Ha ha, you’re such a MS hater. Dumb MS to be developer friendly.
Why is the comment about Microsoft being “developer friendly” ring as be an MS hater?
….NOTORIOUSLY developer friendly. Read the last paragraph. Says it all.
“….especially since Microsoft is notoriously developer friendly”… Ha ha, you’re such a MS hater. Dumb MS to be developer friendly.