[mtgx]

So basically anyone who is writing an app for WP8 will have to start with a market share of 0% and 0 units in the market.

[barista]

Nope. They start with market share of all installed windows phone.

Plus they have all the windows desktop/tablet users who could use their app as well.

[onetwothreefour]

Well, you're wrong because WP7 is now pretty much dead.

So there's literally no reason to target it, and anything written in C/C++ is only going to run on WP8.

So they've pretty much killed off their already lagging platform in preference for a new lagging platform with 0 installed base.

Microsoft are smoking some serious crack. I'm glad our company didn't spend a second developing for WP. What a clusterf*ck.