The amount of apps in the Windows Phone Marketplace
Microsoft's Windows Phone Marketplace has now reported to have passed 25,000 apps by one site tracking comings and goings within it. (source: WindowsPhoneAppslist, July 2011)
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@lostarchitect
No, it has been a completely hellish experience. First, it took 7 hours to activate my phone the day the 2.0 FW came out. I have had lockups, crashes while answering calls, lost data, and at times I have to tap multiple times to do something as simple as closing a browser "tab".
Then last night we are sitting at a bar and a song I never heard of was playing so I pull out my iPhone to run Shazam (a cool app that does song recognition) to find what it is. The problem - the app was gone. In fact, all my apps were gone, both free and paid ones. So I try to re-download this one app. I get the usuall UAC-esqe dialog box (you know, the same one that Apple makes fun of Microsoft in a commercial for, but on a phone it is OK), but this time it asks me for my user and pass, as opposed to the usual password. It starts downloading, then freezes during the install portion. Holding down any combination of buttons does nothing, the only thing that worked was to let the battery completely drain.
To tie this all into Mobile Me, a few months ago Apple had to change their updater because it was installing Safari in a slimy way. A few days ago I was trying to config my new video card, and discovered a new applet in control panel. When you install iTunes 7.7 they install Mobile Me on your computer. No questions asking me if I want it installed, they install more bloat that does not even work without permission.