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It's just about perfect for that hardware.Īnd I should note that ALL users preferred the Windows 8 tablets to the laptops (mostly Dell) that they replaced, some of which were Core i7 and a lot faster. I'm told the series 7 slates were the development target for Windows 8 and it shows. When Windows 8 was released we started upgrading the tablets and users loved it, worked with touch in the conference room but had the Desktop when they slate was docked at their desk.

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They shipped with Windows 7 and customers were basically unhappy because Win7 is far from touch-optimized. Tablets and ones with touch screens make up what percentage of users? And shouldn't satisfaction be higher because of the tablet/touch optimization (where Win7 didn't really have any)?Īt one of my last job sites I did a large deployment of Samsung series 7 slates. I'd call it a very narrow study of the users. I have no idea what the revenue stats are for either store though. The Windows Store is available even to non touch enabled PC's after all. Maybe even Windows when it figures out what it wants to be when it grows up. That's what they can build xbox and wp8 on. Microsoft has made real progress, of course, though I'm much more impressed with the web/cloud figures of active users, skydrive users and total ms accounts. Still, it's better than Microsoft's attempts in that space, which is still pretty much nonexistent. They haven't given it much love, I'd say, or anything as cool as what Valve has done with Steam. Now, the Mac App Store is nothing to crow about, either. Ultimately, the Windows Store specializes in touch-based apps, afaict, so it should be compared to Google Play, Itunes, Amazon AppStore. Or, say, the Nook app store, Kindle store, etc. Lastly, the figures I saw only looked at the volume of the 'top 300' apps (probably because the data is hand-collected by a third party), which clearly favors a 'shallow' store with a 'short tail' such as the brand new Windows Store.

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The Windows Store didn't make as much money as the Mac App Store, and it's full of early adopters, whereas the Mac App Store is old news. It doesn't necessarily 'win' head-to-head, either.

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The only real competitors to the Mac app store is Steam, maybe ubuntu software center, i.e. If it is just desktop it would be interesting to compare it to the Mac Desktop app purchase rate, which as far as I know has never been stated.Īctually I believe this was reported and IIRC the Windows Store already has more apps and more downloads than the Mac App store. So, not as robust as iOS certainly, but decent enough methinks.ĭoes the Windows App store include mobile and desktop apps or just desktop. But bear in mind that the iOS numbers cover both phone and tablet, while the 250 million for Microsoft is Windows Store only (and over 6 months at that) I stand corrected on the app download stats. But that only applies if they actually keep pursuing that strategy. Now, normally this is the point where I'd note that Microsoft is pursuing a long-term strategy, and it's still pretty early. The 250M figure suggests many desktop users are entirely ignoring the Windows Store despite having Metro in their faces. iOS is closing in on 50 billion app downloads, or an average of 100 apps per (current) user over its history. Apple is serving up about 2.5 billion apps a month to an installed base of 500M. That five apps figure for iOS is per month, not ever. iOS has an average of 5 last I bothered to check. 250 million app downloads is not huge, it implies 2 apps downloaded on average per user.

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