{"id":647935,"date":"2013-03-20T20:25:17","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T00:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=387505"},"modified":"2013-03-20T20:25:17","modified_gmt":"2013-03-21T00:25:17","slug":"microsoft-insists-100-payouts-arent-the-only-way-to-draw-developers-to-windows-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/647935","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft insists $100 payouts aren\u2019t the only way to draw developers to Windows 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/20\/microsoft-100-dollar-developer-offer-387505\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/ballmer-plane.jpg?w=650&amp;h=366&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Microsoft $100 Developer Offer\" title=\"Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer\" \/><\/a><\/center>Microsoft (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=msft\">MSFT<\/a>) is willing to pay app developers $100 for every Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 app they develop, but the company insists that payouts aren&#8217;t its main strategy for <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/14\/blackberry-10-app-ecosystem-analysis-376390\/\">improving its app ecosystem<\/a>. A <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/microsoft\">Microsoft<\/a> spokesperson\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/allthingsd.com\/20130320\/microsoft-says-paying-developers-not-its-main-strategy-for-getting-more-windows-apps\/\">told <em>AllThingsD<\/em><\/a> that the company believes &#8220;the best apps come from those partners who are invested in the platform and own their experience now and in the future&#8221; and that its limited-time $100 offer &#8220;is not representative of an ongoing program.&#8221; Microsoft has put a lot of effort into <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2012\/12\/14\/windows-phone-8-app-development-increase-microsoft-247179\/\">attracting developers to both Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8<\/a> as it tries to generate developer enthusiasm for its platforms that matches the level of enthusiasm for iOS and Android. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/article2\/0,2817,2416556,00.asp\">A recent study by <em>PCMag<\/em><\/a> showed that\u00a0Windows Phone 8 now offers 63% of the 102 most popular apps available for iOS and Android.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/8phC_1gCdLw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft (MSFT) is willing to pay app developers $100 for every Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 app they develop, but the company insists that payouts aren&#8217;t its main strategy for improving its app ecosystem. A Microsoft spokesperson\u00a0told AllThingsD that the company believes &#8220;the best apps come from those partners who are invested in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-647935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}