Prediction: no one is making WP7 apps by the end of the year

July 30, 2014 adduplex5 Comments

We had some internal debates on how much we should invest in adding new stuff to Windows Phone 7 SDKs. My gut feeling was telling that the returns on such investment are diminishing. But gut feeling isn’t good enough. Especially when we have some data to rely on.

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Here you can see the number of new WP7 apps compared to new WP8 apps on AdDuplex. As you can see from the trend line, this ratio will come to pretty much zero by the end of 2014.

5 thoughts on “Prediction: no one is making WP7 apps by the end of the year”

Thomas Anderson says:

July 30, 2014 at 2:11 pm

Univesal Apps are the future

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- MykeP says:
  
  August 14, 2014 at 10:00 am
  
  Universal apps are the distant future.
  
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JP Hellemons says:

July 30, 2014 at 2:36 pm

You just can’t develop a wp7 app on windows8.1 http://jphellemons.nl/post/develop-a-windows-phone-7-application-on-windows-81 you need (a vm with) windows 7 for it.

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- Martin Suchan says:
  
  July 30, 2014 at 5:36 pm
  
  Not true, I got Visual Studio 2012 installed on Windows 8.1 machine and developing WP7.5 apps works just fine.
  
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- Dan Colasanti says:
  
  October 28, 2014 at 7:08 am
  
  I just published one this month – targeted WP 7.1 using VS2012 on Windows 8.1
  
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