Vaikea muistaa 10 vuoden takaisia sovelluksia ja niiden suosiota, ja vielä vähemmän ulkomailla, mutta tässä on Cnetin näkemys:
"Still, there are scores of other apps it currently lacks, like official apps for Google's services (apart from Search), Pandora, Spotify, Living Social, Yahoo Messenger, Yahoo Sportacular, WebMD, Hulu Plus, Starbucks, and countless official apps for banks (like Chase and Wells Fargo--there
is one for Bank of America), airlines (like Southwest and United--Microsoft has American Airlines), and retailers (like Wal-Mart and Best Buy)."
Apps are crucial to Windows Phone success
Suomalaiselle todellakin aika outo lista Spotifyä lukuunottamatta.
Tilanne kolme vuotta myöhemmin:
The 4 steps Microsoft must take to fix Windows Phone
Pari lainausta:
"The situation is not as dire as it was a few years ago, when the app store was just starting to grow and was missing nearly every popular title. Today, you can download many of the must-have apps, including
Facebook ,
Waze, and
Vine ,
but they don't all have the same features -- or even work as well as their iOS and Android counterparts.
There's still hope, however. Microsoft has the power to fix the app issues that plague Windows Phone to make the operating system better and more appealing. Here are the four things I'd need for them to accomplish that.
Give me the real, full-featured apps
An
early issue with Windows Phone was that many big-name titles from Android and iOS were simply missing from the app store. Now, the Windows Phone app store now has many of the apps you'd want, including Instagram, Waze, and LinkedIn, but many are simply not as good as the same apps on iOS and Android."
"Final thoughts
Windows Phone 8.1 is a great operating system, and it runs on a wide range of premium hardware.
Feature for feature, it can almost match iOS and Android, but right now the biggest challenge
holding it back is its lackluster app store."