Furthermore by spending hundreds of millions of dollars, it is effectively competing against its own business model. That said, Microsoft has come from behind before. It entered the console market years behind Sony and Nintendo; the Xbox is now the top-selling console in the U. Windows Phone 7 has also won positive reviews from tech blogs across the board with its sleek interface.
Plus, the marketing dollars do make a difference. Trying to push forward with Windows Phone, the company continues to help developers create apps by providing financial incentives. Microsoft has in the past acknowledged that it pays mobile developers to help them create apps for its Windows Phone platform.
That practice is now even more alive and well as both Microsoft and Nokia struggle to make a dent in a competitive marketplace with Windows Phone and the new Lumia lineup, according to the New York Times. That's the type of cash the developers themselves could never raise on their own.
As just one example noted by The Times, the makers of the popular Foursquare app admitted that they could never have built a version for Windows Phone had Microsoft not contributed money toward its development. Such an incentive also points out a key difference between Microsoft and its dominant rivals. Neither Apple or Google need to pay developers to create apps for their mobile landscapes. So things can change quickly with technology, but sometimes for the worse, such as when Microsoft killed the Kin smartphone after only a few embarrassing months of meager sales.
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