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by ArkanExplorer 1850 days ago
I think Windows could succeed with UWP if they embraced 0% sales commission, and just charged a yearly fee per app (which could scale based on units sold, to cover credit card fees).

They should allow developers to directly distribute the software from their own websites, and for 3rd-party stores to sell and distribute UWP apps.
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Sebb767 1850 days ago
> which could scale based on units sold, to cover credit card fees

Wouldn't that simply be a sales commission again, just billed yearly?

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thrower123 1849 days ago
Regardless of any financial considerations with the Store around UWP, they really just screwed the pooch on the developer experience. Going back to Window 8, it's been a trainwreck for years. Nobody wants to chase their recommended newest thing when it is perpetually half-baked, so a fair number of people have thrown up their hands and decided to just stick with tried-and-true WinForms or WPF or raw Win32 forever.
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pjmlp 1848 days ago
The very fact that WinDev doesn't get it why using COM and dealing with IDL files without any kind of tooling support is a problem shows how they don't even make an effort to understand what Windows developers want.

It is not like something like C++ Builder and Delphi don't exist for 25 years now.

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