If not the ipad then what instead?

[mrstickball]

disolitude said:

famousringo said:

 

 

Microsoft has a pretty good history of getting developers on board (excepting Phone 7)

Explain how?

They have just under 80,000 apps for Windows phone in less than a year and a half.  Its' growing almost as fast as iOS app store did when it came out and much faster than Android app store did.

Not to mention their dev tools are class leading and support they provide developers is first rate. Here is a cool article about it -

http://www.theverge.com/2012/3/29/2908965/microsoft-windows-phone-student-developers-building-ecosystem

And given sales of apps for WM7, its unlikely they are ever going to have apps of note or usefulness in comparison to whats on Android or iOS.