Hard Work, Persistence and Passion . . . .
… will only get you so far ….
Something strange has been going on with my Windows Phone and App store downloads. Windows Store App Sales So not a very inspiring story but this graph shows sales revenue (not ad revenue) for Apps between April and June this year. The graph shows a regular income from App sales of between £5 and £10... Continue Reading →
Something strange has been going on with my Windows Phone and App store downloads. Windows Store App Sales So not a very inspiring story but this graph shows sales revenue (not ad revenue) for Apps between April and June this year. The graph shows a regular income from App sales of between £5 and £10... Continue Reading →
The following core Windows Apps have all been updated for the release and will appear as updates to the Windows Store: (Click to enlarge) Needless to say if you have bought a Surface device (or any other Windows 8 device) you should install all these updates before you go any further.
I just noticed that I hit the 75K combined total downloads for my Windows Phone 7 Apps: Bit surprised at some of the rankings:
For the last few days I have been getting notifications that updates are ready to install but I am having difficulty installing them. Here is what I am seeing: 1. Tile shows a daily increasing number of apps to update. 2. Selecting get me the list for updating: ... Continue Reading →
Third day of trying to register an App name for the Windows 8 Store: Is anyone else out there having any luck? FIX No idea what made me try this but I copied the URL into another browser and this time, instead of going to the name your App page I was told to enter... Continue Reading →
Not very scientific but a quick way to check the number of Windows 8 Apps in the marketplace for your own region (ie Apps that you are able to access) Open the Windows Store Go to the search charm Search for " " (a blank space) You should get a count back, along with a... Continue Reading →
Talk about ‘hard work, persistence & passion’ I now have an App in the Windows 8 store (RTM). Without going in to details this has been an up hill struggle but I am very pleased to say that it should be available from the store ‘very soon’. the URL I have been given for... Continue Reading →
This post documents an issue I have been getting with the uploading of Apps to the Windows Store. 1. WACK process completes successfully: Upload in progress: Produces this error: NB I am using the latest builds of Windows and Visual Studio available. If anyone else is getting this issue please add a note in... Continue Reading →
Just documenting an issue I have been having this morning when firing up the Windows 8 Store. At first I get the familiar splash screen: “Getting the store ready for you” But then after a few more seconds I am presented with “This might take a while longer”: Before finally being hit with “We... Continue Reading →
Hard Work, Persistence and Passion . . . . 