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Why no news on winappupdate.com? I’ve been traveling!

Posted on November 26, 2012 by wmiller

Apologies for the lack of updates recently. While the Windows Store has been growing by ~500 apps per day worldwide, only a fraction of these are truly stellar apps, and filtering out the wheat is still a manual process – … Continue reading →

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Windows Store: The Turn

Posted on October 26, 2012 by wmiller

The Prestige is one of my favorite movies. Every time I watch it, I notice a nuanced plot twist that I missed before. Since I started counting, the second most frequent question I get after, “how many apps are there?” … Continue reading →

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Windows Store: Show me the numbers.

Posted on October 3, 2012 by wmiller

If you haven’t yet read my post from yesterday, please do. It’s very relevant to this conversation. As I stated – The Windows Store doesn’t need a large number of apps to be successful. It needs a number of great apps … Continue reading →

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Windows Store: Charmed, I’m sure.

Posted on October 2, 2012 by wmiller

I noted yesterday on Twitter that many of the apps that are appearing on the store look alike. This is really unfortunate. It’s unfortunate for consumers as they’ll need to sort through lots of chaff to find really unique apps. … Continue reading →

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What’s the deal with counting Windows Store apps?

Posted on September 28, 2012 by wmiller

I just posted an entry on my “regular” blog that relates to this site. Thought some of you might want to read it. What’s the deal with counting Windows Store apps?

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Windows Store: A second wind

Posted on September 26, 2012 by wmiller

It’s been a few days since I posted an update on the growth of the store. Yesterday Mary Jo Foley posted an article with some of my recent stats, and Alex Wilhelm posted a bit more cynical take. Today, fellow … Continue reading →

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Windows Store: Two-thousand, seventy-nine

Posted on September 21, 2012 by wmiller

Milestones. Every one counts. Sure, the iOS app store has considerably more apps than the Windows Store today – that’s not news. But developers are adding to the Windows Store every day – and though some apps are removed from … Continue reading →

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Windows Store: How many apps? How many developers? What’s the ratio?

Posted on September 18, 2012 by wmiller

I swear – there are other people asking for information too – but the other day Jason again gave me a good question for which I had the data in hand. He asked: As of yesterday, Sept. 18, 2012: There … Continue reading →

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Flashlight apps – lighting their way into the Windows Store

Posted on September 17, 2012 by wmiller

As I mentioned yesterday, I asked my Twitter followers what Windows Store statistics they’d like to see. He likely meant it as a joke, but follower @databasejase asked: I figured I’d actually take a look at this one, just to … Continue reading →

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Welcome to WinAppUpdate

Posted on September 16, 2012 by wmiller

One month ago today, I began analyzing the Windows Store. It was a dark time, when we didn’t know the difference between a Metro app, modern app, and a Windows Store app. When I first calculated the number of Windows … Continue reading →

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