Honestly they are just parroting Apple AppStore. I don't mean that in a bad way in that people aren't stupid in in the company but one has to settle on a core cultural reality - everything in Microsoft is about compete, the company is obsessed with one-uping the competition but they fail more and more to realise WHY they are competing. You can easily get sucked into the idea of "We have to beat Apple" cheer leading and hardly if not barely anyone turns around and ask the question "Why?"
Point in case - http://www.globalnerdy.com/2013/04/30/delusional-ceo-of-company-scrambling-for-distant-third-place-says-theyll-be-the-absolute-leader-in-five-years/- Microsoft staff held a funeral for iOS / Android on the day Windows Phone went gold master. It's one thing to be confident and believe in your product its another to be so arrogant and delusional? Rather than celebrate their product with a sense of pride or fist pumping they instead came at it with the whole "Knife the Baby" aggression - the very thing that made the DOJ turn around and simply say "Ok, that's enough.." Windows Store doesn't solve a problem if they actually gave the problem an actual original thought then actual Store would look like something you'd buy from. They have XBOX Store as an example, Zune Marketplace as another example so it's not like they haven't actually had success here.. in the case of Windows 8 they simply just gave up. --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 10:31 AM, Nathan Chere <nathan.ch...@saiglobal.com>wrote: > The ‘problem’ they’re trying to solve (as I understand it) is not > keeping up with the Jones’ in terms of easy it is for the average J. Doe to > download things from Apple’s App Store with confidence that it won’t > contain malware or corrupt their system. Not a bad thing in itself, but the > mistake (as I understand) it is forcing it as the ‘one true path’ at the > expense of the general desktop experience.**** > > ** ** > > *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: > ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *David Connors > *Sent:* Wednesday, 25 September 2013 9:29 AM > *To:* ozDotNet > *Subject:* Re: Mark II**** > > ** ** > > On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 1:47 PM, Scott Barnes <scott.bar...@gmail.com> > wrote:**** > > Good straw-man test to undertake - how many times a day you check the > AppStore in Windows 8.1 ..**** > > ** ** > > You're dead right. Moreover I don't really know what problem the Windows 8 > app store is solving. It has never been hard to obtain/install software for > Windows.**** > > ** ** > > The app store on iPhone was revolutionary because it was a total PITA to > get apps onto a phone prior to it and the quality of what was there > (syncing apps onto Windows Mobile etc) was pretty bad. **** > > ** ** > > David. **** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > Click here <https://www.mailcontrol.com/sr/MZbqvYs5QwJvpeaetUwhCQ==> to > report this email as spam.**** > > > This message has been scanned for malware by Websense. www.websense.com >
