Windows Phone 7 Marketplace set to reach 5,000-app milestone

Developers’ interest is strongly driven by the sales figures of the devices running WP7. iPhone sold very well in 2007-08 before the App Store’s success. Android skyrocketed this year when everybody said the Market had no apps. It’s always sales of the hardware first, and then the developers’ interest of making apps for the platform. Microsoft’s attempt to alter this phenomenon by paying developers to develop is not sustainable (of course this works at the beginning) without proof of good sales figures in the long term.

And don’t make me wrong, I find WP7′s interface quite intuitive, at least they’ve done something that doesn’t look like Symbian S60 a.k.a Android.

You point being what? You say a lot of stuff that has nothing to do with your original post that “the number has no meaning”.

I will expand on this for you and also show you that your idea that microsoft paying developers does not work long term is not true.

1. If you read the article the author mentions developers as he is aware that the rate of growth (percentage terms) is significant due to developer interest regardless of the reason.(paid by microsoft or not). Notice how in his article he explains the stages from 2000 to 3000 apps e.t.c
Reaching 5000 app (app numbers) s is not the point, developer interest is the point. thats why he mentions that 18000 developers have registered.

2. On your other point that this is not sustainable for microsoft to pay developers, you suprise me cause as someone who is quick to comment i thought you would have figured that this is a strategy by microsoft to get developers to have a vested interest in wp7 and therefore the long term scenario is that the developers will continue producing apps long after microsoft has stopped paying them.
Again this strategy ensures important apps are available to drive sales of wp7 devices. Increased sales of these devices will then lead to an increase in developers joining the wp7 bandwagon as they see pontential revenue from a large end-user base. Sales of devices attract app developers and apps developed will encourage sales.

Your view is shorted sighted if you think microsoft is paying for apps. What microsoft is paying for is developer interest and at the same time marketing their phones to the general public by providing the apps they want. “Its like a drug dealer who gets you hooked on free drugs and once addicted asks you to fund your own habit thereby increasing his revenue over time”

If palm or blackberry had adopted the same strategy they would have a bit more success than they have had so far.

Bullyboyb LOL!

What a fucking loser.

Dead, dead, dead…stick a fork in Microsoft’s turd of a cellphone OS.

Gotta love those idiots from Microsoft’s clusterfuck of a division, E&D. Nothing but garbage products built out of pure fail:

* The stinking pile of shit Xbox consoles

* The dead Kin

* The forgettable Zune

* The dead Windows Phone 7

Failures only billions in monopoly revenues can fund.