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It's staggering to think how much things have changed in the cellphone
industry over the last few years. Where vendors once measured success
largely in terms of units shifted, future success is now measured by
the number of apps, games, and devs attracted to each opposing
platform in a burgeoning smartphone marketplace. Just last week, Nokia
announced that it had lured in some 400,000 new developers over the
last year. Now Microsoft is touting a rather meager (by comparison)
15,000 Windows Phone developers "signaling their intent to bring
exciting content to Windows Phone." Enough implied manpower to push
well beyond the 3,000 apps and games expected to be populating the
Windows Marketplace by the end of this week. Of course, objectively
measuring a developers intent to develop on a platform is difficult.
And really, platform potential is not the primary thing driving the
purchasing decision of most consumers -- not with so many viable
handsets available today. Still, it's good to see such optimism
coupled with the fact that the vast majority of people around the
world -- gasp! -- still don't use smartphones.
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
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