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by joshuapants 3964 days ago
> This might be a huge opportunity for Microsoft and WP

On the contrary, they've been trying to penetrate the developing market for some time. In fact, the low-end Lumias are almost uniformly better than Android devices in the same price range.

Apps are an issue, but that brings us to the chicken-egg problem of customers and apps.

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> Apps are an issue, but that brings us to the chicken-egg problem of customers and apps.

Apps are not a issue. There are under 1000 must have apps. Pay each company $1M to port it and support it on the platform and you have competitive ecosystem for less than the rounding error of MS revenue.

They did that. And then those companies never updated the apps.