{"id":658012,"date":"2013-05-14T18:05:44","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T22:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=522711"},"modified":"2013-05-14T18:05:44","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T22:05:44","slug":"developer-interest-in-windows-phone-8-has-seemingly-hit-a-brick-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/658012","title":{"rendered":"Developer interest in Windows Phone 8 has seemingly hit a brick wall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/14\/windows-phone-8-developer-interest\/\" class=\"bgr-rss-featured-image bgr-rss-test-class\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/skype-windows-8-win-phone-8-9.jpg?resize=610%2C436\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Windows Phone 8 Developer Interest\" title=\"Windows Phone 8 Developer Interest\" width=\"610\" height=\"436\" \/><\/a><\/center>It may be time for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hMLcKtVwF-A\">Steve Ballmer to crank up his famous &#8220;Developers, developers, developers!&#8221; chant<\/a>\u00a0again if it will get software developers more excited about <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/windows-phone-8\">Windows Phone 8<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tech-thoughts.net\/2013\/05\/slowing-windows-phone-app-growth-developer-interest.html\">Sameer Singh at <em>Tech-Thoughts<\/em><\/a> has charted the growth history of the three major mobile app stores and has found that Windows Phone&#8217;s app store is lagging behind where <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/ios\">iOS<\/a> and Android were 30 months after their initial launches. What&#8217;s more, he&#8217;s found that <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/10\/windows-phone-store-apps-number\/\">the additions of new apps to the Windows Phone 8 app market have markedly slowed<\/a> over the past six months, whereas iOS and Android both saw significant rises in app additions over the same periods after their initial launches. Singh speculates that the slowdown in <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/20\/microsoft-100-dollar-developer-offer-387505\/\">interest from developers<\/a> is due to &#8220;limited install base, low user engagement, monetization challenges and regional developer restrictions,&#8221; among other factors.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/NbRzbbNaeXc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It may be time for Steve Ballmer to crank up his famous &#8220;Developers, developers, developers!&#8221; chant\u00a0again if it will get software developers more excited about Windows Phone 8. Sameer Singh at Tech-Thoughts has charted the growth history of the three major mobile app stores and has found that Windows Phone&#8217;s app store is lagging behind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658012","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=658012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}