If not the ipad then what instead?

[disolitude]

famousringo said:

disolitude said:
@famousringo and mrstickball

Im out for the night and can't look for specific examples and apps but there are lots of very successful windows phone exclusive apps. I am on every windows phone news and xna developers RSS feeds and and every week a new success story is shared by a dev. Usually windows phone apps perform better than Android counterparts.

Look up Elbert Perez for a very successful developer exclusive to windows phone.

This guy, huh:

http://www.wpcentral.com/2011-lessons-learned-windows-phone-developer

So, he has twelve games to his name and they earned him $61,000 last year. I'm supposed to believe that this guy is capable of churning out a quality game every month or so and that an average of $5,000 revenue per app is big success? That's a decent income, sure, but a single good app on iOS can make an indie dev a millionaire (granted, those million sellers usually take more than 30 days of work to make).

Youre right that this isnt a massive success, however ive been reading a lot of small dev success stories on windows phone. Elber Perez games really arent anything special. Really simple games some of which are not even that good, however he has had success with them on WP.

Here is another dev that made $ 100,000 on a single game. http://www.wpcentral.com/windows-phone-game-taptitude-hits-100k-mark

As far as bigger players and devs, there have been many reports that windows phone marketplace performs astonishingly well for howmany users they have. http://www.everythingwm.com/fruit-ninja-over-7-times-more-revenue-on-windows-phone-compared-to-android/2011/03/09/

So while no one is going to argue that wp app store can go toe to toe with iOS in terms of revenue, it does just fine on its own terms.