Windows Phone platform has been gaining a lot of traction lately with its share hitting double digit figures in Europe and has managed to find descent enough takes in Asian markets. Microsoft has also managed to attract developers for its platform and Redmond’s tactics have seemingly worked considering that Windows Phone store registered double digit growth in number of apps during the last five months of 2013.
The increase in number of app submissions and approvals thereafter may seem great, but it’s on the periphery considering that the Windows Phone Store is actually plagued with junk across all categories of the apps and games.
Social Networking
We did a simple search on Windows Phone Store for ‘Facebook’ and to our surprise found at least 40 apps with the word Facebook. Out of these 40 odd apps, we found both free and paid apps with some even costing as much as $2.49.
Just one of the apps out of these 40 is the official Facebook app and remaining ones are third-party apps some of which just point to browser.
Search for Twitter reveals around 11 apps – both paid and free, while search for LinkedIn brings up around 5 results.
Web Browser
Chrome and Firefox are two of the most famous browsers after Internet Explorer, but there are no Windows Phone versions of either of the browser. To make matters worse, we have even found instances of Safari browser. This is something that is just outrageous.
Searching for Chrome brings up quite a few apps including a set of paid apps. The same is the case with Firefox – the search results of which shows up three apps.
Apparently, you’ve never used Google Play store or the App Store.
Windows phone Store is the only one plagued with garbage apps, how many fart apps are in the App Store? Totally biased article. JUNK WRITING
I agree that with @disqus_f4Hy4LwsWA:disqus and @jhtanglewood:disqus that both Android and Apple stores are also loaded with junk apps, we need to take into account that Microsoft is new in this game and is clearing up more and more however as number of major name names including Google are refusing to contribute to Windows Phone ecosystem as they did with iOS; Windows Phone users must rely on many 3rd party apps and of course in middle of all this number of them will turn out to be junk however Microsoft will not know about them until users report them.
We had the same situation when iOS and Android was initially introduced.