Microsoft: Worried about the App Store?

That is SO cool.

I just downloaded the mustache app for my Ipod touch. It was only .99 and it has a mouth that moves to the sound of your voice.

Now I want the sun dial app and the handshake app. I am willing to pay for them.

Makes me want to develop a mustach app!

Don't know if anyone caught it, but the opening scene looks like a waste water treatment plant. Funny.

Who cares about app stores.

Check out the current Top 10 requested iPhone features. :)

http://bit.ly/26vxIL


Cheers,
Dean

I watch the ad and saw absolutely nothing about Apple there. The ad simply states that they are not allowing absolute crap like a pong game with only one paddle so the game can only last one shot.

You have to have a really large chip on your shoulder to see anything about Apple in this ad besides MS is copying Apple's marketing strategy. They are knocking nothing about Apple nor are they praising anything either.

The ad simply says that the apps you can buy from them for your phone will work well and not be crap. Nothing more and nothing less unless, as I have said, you are walking in with a chip on your shoulder.

I swear I heard a GarageBand loop when they were showing the Pong ripoff...
Maybe it was just me...

Oh, and by the way, why hasn't Apple made it so that you can use the Bonjour service from the iPhone to print documents to shared network printers?

@LD

True. I personally don't need Exchange support as of now. However, if you read many of the complaints about the Exchange support, you'll see that the iPhone doesn't stack up as well against the Blackberry and many of the WinMo devices. Many businesses refuse to support the iPhone due to the Exchange support and security "issues." Now, has the iPhone come a long way in both of those areas? Yes. But there is always room for improvement.

As for productivity apps, there are a lot for the iPhone, but you have to remember that WinMo has been around alot longer and the developers have been writing code to it. It is nice to see that Documents-to-Go has finally gotten on the iPhone, but I'd like to see a little less hamstrung version. I have used Docs-to-Go since I owned a Palm Pilot MANY years ago. With the folding collapsible keyboard, I was able to carry my Palm and keyboard into my college classes, sit down, unfold the keyboard and take all the notes I needed easily.

Trust me, I love my iPhone. But there is ALWAYS room for improvement and innovation. I'd like to see Apple make the App Store approval process easier and more transparent. I get frustrated just reading how the developers become frustrated with long delays, relatively arbitrary decisions, and the coded dismissal letters that they receive. These are the people who should be the focus of the App Store.

I don't get it. One of the big complaints against the App store is the approval policy. So Microsoft is saying their policies will be even more strict? Is that supposed to entice developers or users?

I have been known to do my fair share of Windows bashing but I thought this commercial was pretty funny. I laughed out loud at the GPS "you are here" part. That was great.

Not sure how well this actually sells their App store or where to even find it but it made me laugh.