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How Remix's Android will eat the world

Sean Timarco Baggaley

"Remix OS with...

...Google Play Store has something rather important that Windows 10 Mobile doesn't: apps. And lots of 'em."

Sorry, but quality > quantity every time. I don't care how many hundreds of thousands of poorly-designed apps there are on Platform X. It's only the quality ones that matter. Always.

Windows 10's App Store already has more apps available in it than iOS did after the same period, so it's hard to paint it as a failure. Yes, it has some way to go before it catches up with its rivals, but it's shockingly ignorant of the IT media to demand Microsoft have an App Store stuffed with as many apps on launch day as Android or iOS do now, when none of their rivals had more than a small number of apps on theirs when they started.

What matters here is whether Windows 10's App Store is catching up, not just in mere quantity, but in quality apps from major names. And they are.

That said, Apple still wins the quality war hands down: they are a lot stricter about enforcing UX guidelines than either Google or Microsoft. I think there's a lesson to be learned here.

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