This is how underpopulated the Windows Store is
One of the strengths of the large mobile platforms is its store of applications And, what is the use of having the most powerful mobile phone on the market when you don't have the basic tools to communicate, work, play or perform tasks from this device? Something that Microsoft knows first-hand as it is the poorest platform in this regard. An issue that has left Windows Phone in a bad third place, very far from Android and iOS, with a lack of applications that tempt users to purchase one of their terminals.Will this trend change with the advent of Windows 10 and its Universal apps?
According to Microsoft, the Windows Store universal apps store already has 669,000 items available A figure that must be looked at with a magnifying glass and analyzed in detail First of all because it is universal applications That is, available for all kinds of devices: computers, tablets, convertibles and mobiles that work with the operating systemWindows 10 In this way, you have to understand that your current mobile option, that is, to platform Windows Phone, is much less than that same number. One of the key points that may have marked the course of this unsuccessful platform.
On the other hand, the total number of applications available is very distant compared to other mobile-only platforms Thus, Google Play Store would already have 1, 6 million items to download, while the App Store Hot on your heels with 1, 5 million apps and games available. That's more Twice as many applications as in Windows Store, which also includes applications that previously were only accessible from computers and tablets.Although not only size matters.
And it is that another key point to take into account is not the quantity, but the quality. Thus, many users of Windows 10 will continue to miss applications and games that manage to succeed on Androidor iOS and that are still not present on the Microsoft platformOr even others that have decided to take the leap, after many years of waiting, but that still do not add their most interesting options. A good example is Instagram, which is still in version beta or testing after a long time at Windows Phone Store
In this way, Microsoft puts a patch but does not solve one of its biggest problems on mobile platforms. And it is that making all the applications and games operational on any device is a real advantage for the user, but the great and most important points that can be made are still missing that succeeds as a platform. It is still missing that developers take this platform seriously, creating versions of their games and applications for it, as well as Microsoft And the company gets more income thanks to the licensing of its patents for Android than to the sales of their own terminals.Is Microsoft really committed to mobile users? Will the use of universal apps change for the better? We will have to wait for the official arrival of Windows 10 also for mobile phones to see if those 669,000 applicationsthey are more useful and enticing than twice as many on other platforms.
