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Microsoft Lays Out Money-Making Options For Windows Store Developers

Posted by samzenpus on from the price-guide dept.

tsamsoniw writes "With the release of Windows 8 just around the corner, Microsoft is eager to see its Windows Store well stocked with third-party, Metro-friendly apps. Hoping to get developers on board, the company has announced pricing structure, along with guidance and tools to help developers create trial versions of apps and set up lucrative in-app purchases."

4 of 85 comments (clear)

  1. Once the market matures by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Aspiring developers could hope to get the total sales from both potential metro users.

  2. And then there's this BS by GameboyRMH · · Score: 5, Interesting

    http://thetechblock.com/why-publishing-on-the-windows-phone-marketplace-is-like-walking-barefoot-on-broken-glass

    Have fun with curated computing, developers. Work real hard and your app might be the next big hit! *snicker*

    --
    "When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
  3. Re:Fags and spics by thetoadwarrior · · Score: 5, Insightful

    A smaller tablet with a lower resolution and all the ipad benefits (ie no SD card) and it's all controlled by an advertiser that wants me to hand over all my personal data. Where do I sign up?

  4. I'm Sick Of Apps and Ecosystems. by Tackhead · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Remember the good old days, when shareware developers built stuff that ran natively and didn't phone home?

    When open source developers built stuff that compiled natively and couldn't phone home?

    Yeah, Pepperidge farm and I remember.

    But then came "downloaders" (Look, Adobe Acrobat XYZ is only 1MB, never you mind the 90MB the 1MB "installer" is downloading in the background.)

    And finally came "apps" and "ecosystems", a world in which instead of having a locally-hosted .src.tar.gz/installer/executable that the user can install for him or herself, it all goes away to "the cloud", because it's just a bunch of HTML5 running in a stripped-down web browser that dignifies itself by calling itself a "container".

    I'm either getting old and becoming a luddite, or this industry has really taken a turn for the worse. Probably a little of both.