Windows Marketplace for Mobile
Research #Ecosystem #Industry #Windows Mobile · 1 comment
by Horace Dediu
One observer has posted that WMM (Microsoft's answer to iTunes App Store) has 520 apps in it now. The store launched in Nov 1 with 281 apps. That means there will be about 300 apps added in the first two months. The growth rate is therefore about 150/mo.
This has to be the slowest growing app store among all the contenders, though Palm may also be similar.
By way of comparison, iTunes App Store is growing at about 10k apps/mo. with Android about 3 to 5k/mo.
How does this make sense coming from the company that is known for "developers, developers, developers" and is the largest software company in the world?
1 comment
Lee Penick ·
Lack of creativity and vision. Apparently monopolistic practices aren't enough to succeed this time.