Author Archives: Mike Clark

RIP Zune

Posted on March 14, 2011 by Mike Clark

Word has come that Microsoft isn’t going to produce any more Zune devices, due to lackluster demand.  Well, though this is no surprise, I am saddened. I have a Zune HD, and I really like it.  I bought my wife … Continue reading →

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Superior Tools, Superior Platform

Posted on March 6, 2011 by Mike Clark

It was quite interesting reading about Jamie Murai’s struggle to install the Blackberry Playbook development tools, here, and after his story went viral, his update here.  It reminds me for all the world of what happened with Palm’s swan song … Continue reading →

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The Marketplace May Bite You!

Posted on February 27, 2011 by Mike Clark

In a previous episode of Marketplace Woes, we discovered that the otherwise unexplained negative download bug/feature was in fact the result of a customer having his carrier apply a chargeback for the amount paid for the product.  Fair enough!  One would … Continue reading →

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Negative Download Mystery Solved

Posted on February 26, 2011 by Mike Clark

Earlier (in this post) I reported that the reporting feature of the App Hub was telling me that on Feb 2, 2011, two of my apps, Fraction Calculator and Decimal2Fraction Converter, had minus 2 downloads.  How does one have negative … Continue reading →

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Bad News from the Certification Guys

Posted on February 24, 2011 by Mike Clark

I put together a minor upgrade to all my apps — correcting a couple of things I didn’t like in them, and adding a way for users to see all my apps — and they’ve been coming back from the certification … Continue reading →

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Kudos to @Glowpuff!

Posted on February 17, 2011 by Mike Clark

The Windows Phone 7 developer community is truly a wondrous thing!  My earlier post complaining about the WP7 Marketplace, and wondering what I could do about navigating to my apps from inside the phone (something which I was told by … Continue reading →

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Marketplace Woes

Posted on February 15, 2011 by Mike Clark

The Windows Phone 7 Marketplace is getting to be frustrating.  Marketing one’s apps, especially when they don’t automatically lend themselves to particular vertical markets where one might have a notion of whom to talk to in order to popularize them, … Continue reading →

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Nokia-Microsoft Deal: Nice!

Posted on February 12, 2011 by Mike Clark

I am encouraged that Nokia has made a deal with Microsoft to put Windows Phone 7 on their upcoming smartphones!  Nokia has a large (though shrinking) share of the cellphone market, and is well known worldwide, so this has the … Continue reading →

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I’ve updated my Windows Phone 7 product site

Posted on February 11, 2011 by Mike Clark

I’ve added new detail pages on the product site for each of my apps, including embedded videos on how to use each one of them.  I still seem to be avoiding continuing work on the Ham Radio Practice Exam app.  … Continue reading →

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Brain-dead App Marketing

Posted on February 8, 2011 by Mike Clark

Earlier today I was listening to Leo Laporte, The Tech Guy Podcast, Show #740, and there were two callers taking about the marketing of their iPhone apps, as well as some comments made by Chris Marquardt, one of Leo’s regular … Continue reading →

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