14 DAY TRIAL // Both Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1 suffer from the reduced number of apps available in their stores, and it's no secret that Microsoft itself acknowledged and tried to address this by convincing more developers to port apps to its modern platform.
But one of the issues that are still affecting the Windows store is the overall app quality, as the amount of spam and the number of useless apps that are listed for download are absolutely shocking.
For instance, today we came across some apps created by a developer called “Thao Plus,” who, according to the statistics published in the stores, has a total of 16 items listed for download.
All of these apps follow the same pattern and promise you to offer a tutorial for famous software or games in exchange for a very small fee, in most of the cases two or three bucks. If you click on any of these apps, there's no description, no app information, only a few screenshots, and obviously a buy link to make you purchase the app.
Trial version and more info
Needless to say, all these apps should be greatly improved if they are allowed to be listed in the store, not to mention that a trial version is a must if you don't want people to believe that your apps are scams.
Interestingly, Microsoft promised last year to focus much more on app quality, but it turns out that this promise is no longer a priority with so much work on Windows 10 underway. Hopefully, things will change in the coming months, or otherwise Windows 10 will have a pretty big problem to bring more users on board.
Right now, there are nearly 200,000 apps in the Windows Store, but if all of these scam apps and useless entries are removed, you probably get half of that. So cleaning the store would be a good place to start to show users that you care, Microsoft.
