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Trouble For Microsoft Developers With the Windows Store

Posted by Unknown on from the if-it-works-for-apple dept.

An anonymous reader writes "This blog post from an un-happy Microsoft developer highlights many of the problems that developers are having with submitting to the new Windows store. His app, that won 2 App X challenges from Microsoft, has been rejected 6 times over 2 months with no clear indications as to the cause. This is even after going through a rigorous early-certification process. With Windows RT relying solely on apps from the store, and there being just over 7,000 apps total, Microsoft could have a big problem here."

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  1. only 7000 apps? by wardk · · Score: 5, Funny

    that's only like 3 per RT user?

    the horror

    1. Re:only 7000 apps? by Concerned+Onlooker · · Score: 4, Funny

      "preying on retards has always been profitable."

      Is that how Microsoft initially came to dominate?

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    2. Re:only 7000 apps? by Concerned+Onlooker · · Score: 4, Funny

      The difference is that cattle don't have a sense of taste even though they may taste good.

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  2. Clearly this is Apple's fault by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    First they reject apps on their own store, now they're rejecting apps on Microsoft's store! When will the insanity end?

  3. Developers by PPH · · Score: 5, Funny

    Developers! Developers! Developers!

    Developers?

    [sound of crickets]

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  4. I really tried to care... by TWX · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...honestly, but between Apple's psychotic terms and Google's loose terms leading to virus problems, I really just don't care. Someone will come up with a third-party installer that won't require any kind of permission or certification from Redmond, and since the bulk of people who'll have a snowball's chance in hell of actually noticing this deficiency will use that third-party loader, it won't really matter. If anything it'll allow for a separation between the mundane, boring user and the geek, techie, nerd, what have you.

    Is post-geek a label? As in, one who used to pay attention to the excessive details of digging deep into how something works, but now has graduated into the realization that one can do whatever one needs to do with just about any tools or platform or system and no longer has a need to scrutinize so strongly because one's skills are good enough to weather any circumstances regardless of the technological changes?

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    1. Re:I really tried to care... by TubeSteak · · Score: 4, Funny

      Is post-geek a label? As in, one who used to pay attention to the excessive details of digging deep into how something works, but now has graduated into the realization that one can do whatever one needs to do with just about any tools or platform or system and no longer has a need to scrutinize so strongly because one's skills are good enough to weather any circumstances regardless of the technological changes?

      Not everyone's skills are good enough.
      But TWX (665546), you're not alone.
      There is hope and there is help: Ask Slashdot: Rectifying Nerd Arrogance?

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  5. Re:"could have a big problem" by girlintraining · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's a "HAS a big problem" thing.

    Problem, n.: A feature. -- The New Ballmer Dictionary

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