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Windows Phone Store Has More Than 200,000 Apps Now
Microsoft has been working hard to make sure that their Windows Phone Store will be able to be on par with that on the Android Market as well as Apple App Store in terms of the number of apps available. Well, it was just last month that Microsoft mentioned about how Windows Phone has already arrived at a “critical mass” for apps, and predicted that in 2014, the “app gap” will be closed.
Microsoft has also announced that the Windows Phone Store has already surpassed “12 million transactions per day and Windows Phone Store surpassing 200,000 apps”. This rings in good news for developers as well as users, and Microsoft has also better news that will be able to get developers all excited concerning the health of the ecosystem. According to Microsoft, it has the most carriers connected for carrier billing right now out of all smartphone platforms, boasting of 51 carriers in 31 markets. It is nice to see the Windows Phone platform growing from strength to strength, as this would definitely be a cause for competition for both iOS and Android platforms. It remains to be seen whether BlackBerry will be able to catch up with the Windows Phone platform in the long run. Are you planning to switch over to Windows Phone anytime soon? [Press Release]
It is quite a feeling to have a smartphone getting the latest operating system update up and running, that is for sure. After all, you can never quite tell just what kind of goodies that your handset would receive now, can you? Those who are rocking to a Windows Phone 8.1 device might be looking forward to spending Christmas with a Windows 10 Mobile update but it seems that such hopes will have to be shelved for the moment.
It seems that there will be no Windows 10 update arriving this month as originally speculated, and the time frame itself has been altered, being even more vague in nature – where it has been mentioned to be “early next year”, which could jolly well mean any time, even in April. Looks like patience needs to be had in boatloads here.
So, you are still rocking to the Xiaomi Mi 4 and are more than happy with the device, right? Well, how about enjoying an operating system upgrade when December 3rd rolls around? This is what will happen to the Xiaomi Mi 4, where it has been teased by Xiaomi’s Founder and President Lin Bin on Weibo, citing the December 3rd date. I suppose it is encouraging to take note that this bit arrives close to nine months after Microsoft and Xiaomi came to an agreement, where there would be support for the Windows 10 Technical Preview on the Mi 4 handset.
Just in case you were wondering, there is another device from Xiaomi which will rock to the Windows 10 OS, and that would be the recently announced Xiaomi Mi Pad 2 tablet, with that particular device arriving in a 64GB memory configuration alongside an asking price of $205 thereabouts.
Trivia lovers, here is something that might just pique your interest. After all, don’t you wish you had all sorts of information at your fingertips? Windows Phone lovers will be pleased to hear that there is a leak concerning information about the Windows Phone Store, and such information can be said to be ‘ancient”, as it dates back all the way to October 2011 with the introduction of Windows Phone 7.5.
So far, the most popular downloaded app happens to be Facebook with more than 112 million installations – no surprise there at all, I suppose. WhatsApp is behind Facebook considerably at 92 million downloads, while OneDrive has 62.5 million downloads. Located close to the bottom of the food chain would be PayPal that picked up a mere 1.6 million downloads all this while, and 2.5 million for Telegraph.
Third party apps as well as games have had their fair share of hits, too, like Tube HD that handles the playback of YouTube videos with more than 13 million downloads. Of course, these figures would pale in comparison to what Android and iOS platforms have garnered all this while.