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[melgross]

They should look to their wp7 App Store to see the vast amount of mediocracy in apps. If the Win 8 store can't do better than that, the number won't matter.

[Jdman1699]

The only way Win8 will fail, Is if people, instead of researching it, look at a couple of pictures of it and make their opinion right there.

[Amit11t4]

I've been using a smartphone for about 5 years now and over that period of time I've come to the conclusion that most of the apps are garbage, does it really matter if you have 100K or 500K garbage apps???

[LIEBER]

I have used iPhone since 3s and iPad since iPad 2. Is it important with 400k apps?

The apps/types of apps I *really* use are:
* various dictionaries (mainly on the iPhone, which I always carry in my shirt pocket)
* iAnnotate -- great for commenting on PDF files, etc, etc
* Wolfram Alpha, science calculator, etc
* Facebook, LinkedIn, etc (FB policy of leaking info, etc may soon put an end to that)
* Kindle app, Zinio app for reading magazines (not quite happy with their behavior, though; the Apple newsstand is not an amternative: I subscribed on a magazine for one year and paid -- then after 2-3 numbers, the magazine closes, and very few words from Apple about reimbursement))
* Various photo tools (Snapseed is not perfect; use a resizer, etc)
* Games: iBridgeBaron; nothing else
* surfing + calendar + reading documents, etc.

Most of these apps/app types will surely come to the "Metro" plattform. And I expect e.g the Office tools to be far superior to similar iOS tools.

Why would I switch to W8?
* file system, file system, file system! Currently, I can open PDF files from SkyDrive using iAnnotate, make comments in file, but how do I save it back to the "cloud", automatically preserving the name? I *assume* this is built in W8/WP8??
* but iOS is "instant on" -- faster than W8/WP8?? Maybe, but starting e.g the Apple word processor takes up to 10s…

In the future, I want a media player with built-in support for controlling NAS, etc in media streaming to stereo/surround equipment -- will I get it?

Working with students, I think there is a marked for student tools which doesn't exist today on any platform. "OneNote" on steroids?? But I'm not a developer.
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OK: I'm probably not an average user, and I'm sure lots of other apps are needed. But is 400k a measure of success/quality? No.

[berock212]

I think that it will get a lot more developers when it is released. They don't really have any books that have programming advice yet and developers are looking to see if windows 8 is successful which due to the large number of devices that support it already and the fact it is a great os, it is almost certainly going to be successful.

[WinTard]

berock212, on 10 October 2012 - 11:08 AM, said:

I think that it will get a lot more developers when it is released. They don't really have any books that have programming advice yet and developers are looking to see if windows 8 is successful which due to the large number of devices that support it already and the fact it is a great os, it is almost certainly going to be successful.

Please allow me to interject. Did you know Microsoft is first and foremost a software development company? It has provided the absolute best, outstanding developer support bar none in the whole wide world. Just witness the MSDN and TechNet. In addition to Microsoft having the most computer science illuminaries working for Microsoft Research for eons. How distinguished are they? Well please name how many ACM Turing Award recipients work for other companies?

Please forgive the above diatribe, back to topic: Did you know about the Microsoft freebies? Simply searching for Microsoft free books reveals:

http://i.imgur.com/bS9LL.png

Please do enjoy!

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[Corgalore]

I agree. I'm thinking to myself, who buys a Windows 7 computer and immediately starts seeking out programs to install? The most important thing for Windows 8 to do well is browse the internet fast, provide email functionality and run games. Who cares about the apps?

[jburlison]

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The only way Win8 will fail, Is if people, instead of researching it, look at a couple of pictures of it and make their opinion right there.

I have been using it for about 4 months now, its, more secure and faster than win 7. And it more user- friendly for computer illiterate people. I was skeptical at first about the UI changes but if you dont like it just use desktop mode.

[cgdev2]

One obvious consideration is -- the cost of Windows development tools far exceeds the cost of either Apple or Android dev tools. Staffing 5 developers with Visual Studio 2012 is $600-1000 per developer! Are they nuts? Apple is still $99 and they provide all the tools.

Microsoft is still living in the pre-app world.

[KufuT]

Best comment ever! Sums everything!

[bibupalula]

I think currently only Adobe AIR can offer true multiplatform development ecosystem for either mobile or desktop, and the windows 8 air runtime will be ready very soon. Then you can go iOS, Android, OSx, Windows with one tool, one code base and one programming language across all systems. No mather how hard you try to proove that html5 is better, noone can beat that on this world, not now, not in 5 years from now.

[colspot]

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The only way Win8 will fail, Is if people, instead of researching it, look at a couple of pictures of it and make their opinion right there.

I agree with you, i also saw many images of it before customer preview release and youtube videos of it. I was also thinking that its gonna be hard to use it on desktop but now im using windows 8 on non touch desktop without an issue.
Basically the only reason why windows tablets before ipad didnt succeeded is because it was made for cursor and keyboard only..
Now windows 8 can be a successful tablet and desktop OS if the Developers keeps compatibility of both in mind.