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by marshray 4928 days ago
Nah, you can use the VS Express Edition on a VM hosted on Azure or Amazon to develop Windows 8 store apps for next-to-nothing. There's still some kind of fee to register as an app developer though.

I doubt anyone's going to beg you to jump on it, just sayin' IMHO even the most pessimistic projections would still indicate it's going to be a pretty freaking huge app market.
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codewright 4928 days ago
>I doubt anyone's going to beg you to jump on it

Noooooot exactly what I'm hearing from people that do popular mobile apps...

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marshray 4927 days ago
Right, I was talking about you in particular.

People that do popular mobile apps are usually far more concerned with what other people will be using 6 months from now than what they personally prefer to use right now.

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codewright 4926 days ago
I know 0 Windows Mobile 8 users...this is including other developers who own multiple phones for testing.
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marshray 4926 days ago
Note that the article (and I) have been talking about Windows 8 store apps, which is a different thing than Windows Phone 8.
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