Half a million applications Windows Store, the state of the gaming market in Europe, Oculus Mobile SDK became available for download - and other news of the week for the mobile developer

Windows Store crossed the mark of 500,000 applications

Microsoft has reported on the new achievement of the Windows Store and Windows Phone Store - the number of available applications has stepped over 500 thousand.
To be more precise, the number of applications in the Windows Store reached 150 thousand in March, and in his mobile colleague - 300 thousand in August.

It will be appropriate to compare this data with the number of active applications in the stores of major competitors. Thus, in Google Play, the number of applications in August of this year reached 1.3 million, and the App Store reached this figure in September.

Microsoft is under serious pressure and is trying in every way to expand the market of its platforms, so the release of a branded phone is not far off. For this, Microsoft donated even the Nokia trademark, as it changed the loyalty program for its products as a whole - for example, Microsoft started to release its products for Android Gear, and the latest update for Office Mobile on iOS made it more functional than on Windows Phone itself.
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If we talk about the total share of mobile devices on Windows, then according to Kantar Worldpanel, Microsoft is experiencing hard times: having reached a peak of 10% in 2013, the share of Windows dropped to 8.1% in 2014. The only exceptions are some countries - for example, in Italy, the share of Windows has surpassed even iOS and reached 15% in September.

SuperData distributes its report for free to Eastern Europe Digital Games Market

SuperData provides an opportunity to free “ buy ” a report on the Eastern European digital games market. It discloses in detail information about the growth of profits from games in Eastern Europe, which reaches 7% compared with the data for last year.



Russia occupies a leading position in this market and brings about half of all revenues, which is more than $ 1 billion. Following are countries such as Poland and Turkey, which bring 20% ​​and 14%, respectively.

In the report, it will be possible to find answers to such questions as: what makes the Turkish user more attractive and whether it is worth “looking” at other Eastern European countries, how users prefer to make payments, etc.

It also analyzed the growth of social networks and android devices, a drop in interest in MMO games and a weak interest in consoles.
All this and much more is disclosed in this report and is freely available - do not miss this opportunity!

Oculus SDK for mobile platforms

Oculus Mobile SDK is now available at the Oculus Developer Center. This SDK will allow you to develop mobile applications for the Samsung Gear VR Innovator Edition virtual reality helmet that is compatible with the Samsung Galaxy Note 4.



Pre-order can be done today. The cost will vary from $ 199 to $ 249. Deliveries of a helmet from Samsung will begin at the end of this year.

Facebook intends to achieve dominance in Russia with the help of game developers

Under the loud headline about domination, there is an idea to ensure the influx of new users by offering them a lot of games. Such plans were voiced by Julien Codornier, Facebook development manager for Europe.

The idea seems dubious. Especially considering that not so long ago, FB selected an instant messenger from its mobile application, arguing, including the fact that most users want to communicate, and so it will be easier for them to do so.

It turns out a little inconsistently: FB claims that users need to communicate, but at the same time tries to lure new users with games.

You can still understand the transition from one site with games to another, but the transition from one set of services and the environment of friends to another is much more difficult.

We stock up on popcorn and watch the actions of the FB.