Making customer-focused decisions with Adoption reports

re: Making customer-focused decisions with Adoption reports

Seihyung — Wed, 30 May 2012 11:06:02 GMT

It looks like great. It would be very beneficial to app developers.

I'd like to ask a question.

Can I save these raw data as excel file(.xls, .csv, whatever...)?

re: Making customer-focused decisions with Adoption reports

Sven R. Kunze — Fri, 25 May 2012 12:46:32 GMT

@Antoine Leblond

@Steven Sinofsky

I am wondering why a developer who has great ideas, develops nice, fast and fluent Metro style apps and wants to bring them for free to the users has to pay money for that? I know that the evaluation process and hosting capabilities of the Windows 8 Store are limited and thus are going to cost some money. However do you not think that the new Windows ecosystem could be much richer and so even more valuable when providing apps for free or perhaps even open-source Metro style apps?

I could even think of a code-sharing/dev2dev/buy-a-package capability (cf. GitHub) on the Windows Store.

Please, let me know what you think of that.

re: Making customer-focused decisions with Adoption reports

Steven Sinofsky — Thu, 17 May 2012 03:45:57 GMT

@AJC

There is only support for selling metro style apps in the store, not Win32 apps.

We will have the ability to list your Win32 apps in a catalog which then points to your site or your commerce site to acquire the app.

re: Making customer-focused decisions with Adoption reports

AJC — Wed, 16 May 2012 20:05:36 GMT

I have not been able to find out if we can sell Win32 apps in the new Windows store. Can we do this?

Many apps are not suitable for a touch interface but consumers will still want to buy them from the Windows store and certainly if they have Windows 8 that is the first place they will look.

re: Making customer-focused decisions with Adoption reports

dlvg — Tue, 15 May 2012 18:02:36 GMT

Please display also the current account value (how much I've earned since the last payout). That way I know when I can expect the next payout. That is also missing in the current app hub.

re: Making customer-focused decisions with Adoption reports

JustMe — Mon, 14 May 2012 16:36:49 GMT

Hi Antoine you used a wallpaper as Lockscreen during the WCP event

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Could i have this one please?

re: Making customer-focused decisions with Adoption reports

Quikboy — Sat, 12 May 2012 12:12:07 GMT

Nice stats view. However, could the blogs please try to put in more higher-res images? It's pretty blurry and hurts my eyes trying to discern some details.

re: Making customer-focused decisions with Adoption reports

Sven R. Kunze — Sat, 12 May 2012 10:26:15 GMT

@Antoine

I definitely agree with sreesiv and chriswin. Exporting the data in an easily analyzable format like RDF (in N3 or the like) could be advantageous. I would like an improved store that chriswin mentioned. Some ideas are really striking (desktop apps, split rating, magazine).

Nevertheless, nice work, guys. Keep it up.

re: Making customer-focused decisions with Adoption reports

chriswin — Fri, 11 May 2012 21:14:00 GMT

Its proven fact that app development does not make money (arstechnica.com/.../ios-app-success-is-a-lottery-and-60-of-developers-dont-break-even.ars). The potential is still there but platform owners like apple, MSFT etc are not being very innovative or engaging to help developers monetize and continue make money, and make windows ecosystem more compelling.

Please add the following features to the store:

1. Demo Videos within the screen shot and description section. Animation ads have higher click through rate online and prove to be far more compelling.

2. Increase app pricing to allow developers to break even quicker and hedge against monetary inflation also allow flexible prising model to fight against currency falcuations/risks by allowing a range for increasing and decreasing prices based on anticipated currency falctions.

3. Have dedicated windows store magazine app or website, filled with articles relative to the software development, from consumer, business, IT and NPA/NGP/government specific apps. or revamp "radmond magazine"/"visual studio magazine" to allow engagement between users and software producers.

4. Discount by 5% for use of microsoft advertising to promote apps. help developers market their products, offer a paid short course if you have too.

5. Publish problems on the magazine app from society, business, governments etc that need a software solution, this will function like a 'think tank' where user post the problems and seeking solutions, any developer that solves this gets rewarded from purchases. Remember products (including software products) solve problems in society that’s how to make money, not some massaging app that no one needs or solve any problem.

6. offer a paid course on how to design apps and make money, and how to manage design projects, maintain and further develop apps, consumer relationship management, ethics, international commercial law topics such as copyrighting, patents, sale/licensing contracts etc. this very very important since it seems most app developers lack a lot of professionalism and its visible through the products they come up with and how the engage with the end user.

7. Increase the number of payment methods, have ISP carrier billing (broadband cell phone companies using cell phone call credits), many developing country users don’t have access to credit cards, and therefore wont be able to buy any thing from the store, else have a direct cash bank deposit to an account in that country. Do what ever it takes to have anyone in any country pay for the app they need else all your efforts will be fruitless.

8. Allow desktop apps in the store too, but use the affiliate commission model so MSFT can earn for each purchase. The reason so many desktop developers are moving from windows to iOS and android is because they where not making money because there was no central store even though Vista was suppose to have including windows 7 but it never came to pass, which drove developers away, so please have desktop apps in the store too, and have a blog on how to update old desktop apps for new windows and hardware (dual core etc) they have invested a lot of time and money on, allow them get a return on previous windows investments. Along the way they start creating metro apps too.

9. 'Click to compare' features are also very important, in this case user can only compare apps in the same catagory e.g () one way to achieve autometically is by allowing developers fill in an app feature form. this wll then be comapered to other similar apps under the same category.

10. 4 rating stars should be 1. MSFT technical rating (how well it fits into your criteria of how an app should be using a technical percpective) 2. consumer rating 3. techcominity rating (other developers in the windows store can rate it) 4. avagerage of the three above.

11. the ability to sell budle apps at descount price and option to sell individualally

re: Making customer-focused decisions with Adoption reports

Sven — Fri, 11 May 2012 18:59:48 GMT

I forgot: a way to respond to customer reviews would be great. Either a public answer function for the reviews, or a private (maybe anonymous) way to contact a customer. This helps in most cases to clear out questions or problems / confusion.