WP Marketplace Facing High Volume of New Apps; MS Considering Cross Development Tools
by David K on March 1, 2012
Microsoft’s Registered Developer Newsletter is out and there are some neat tidbits in this one. First up is a note about the timing on app submissions:
App Certification and Ingestion Delays
We are aware and are tracking delays in the app certification, ingestion and publishing process. Testing is currently taking 24-48 hours and publishing an additional 24-48 hours. Thank you for your patience as we work to clear the queue and scale to handle the high volume of submissions.
So there’s a clear spike in the number of new apps in submission at this time. This can be part of the Win8 effect or the Nokia effect…or just traction. Either way it’s good.
Next up:
Survey: Building Portable Apps for Multiple Platforms
We’d like your thoughts on developing for Windows Phone in conjunction with development on other platforms. Your thoughts will help guide our support for cross-platform tools. To participate, please use the following URL to take this short survey:
Curious to see where this will go. I know MS is a software company and they want to have cross-dev tools but that will really cut down on what makes their own platforms exclusive and unique.
Interesting times we’re in here…
Category: Windows Phone 8 comments »
March 1st, 2012 at 10:10 pm
I think it makes sense that they develop cross-platform tools as it makes devs comfortable with coding in MS’s environment. It would be easier to get devs to focus more on Microsoft platforms if that is the case.
I also think in some situations apps & services should be cross-platform.
I’m looking forward the impact of Windows 8 adoption by devs have on the WP marketplace.
March 1st, 2012 at 10:45 pm
No way Windows 8 doesn’t add a few million Windows Phone users
March 2nd, 2012 at 4:09 pm
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March 2nd, 2012 at 4:42 pm
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March 3rd, 2012 at 12:40 am
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April 5th, 2012 at 12:54 am
[...] Last month we reported that Microsoft’s Registered Developer newsletter noted that apps are taking an additional 24-48 hours for approval because of high volumes of submissions. Well things are getting worse according to the Newsletter that came out today: App Certification and Ingestion Delays Due to high submission and update volumes, the app certification process is continuing to take longer than it has previously. It is currently taking at least 7 calendar days to certify and publish apps, and that could increase now that new Marketplace consumer markets are coming online. We recommend that you submit for certification well in advance of any desired publish date. Thank you for your patience as we continue to scale to handle the high volume of submissions. [...]