[jjsheridan5]

Green adds to the developer perspective: "Writing for the WP7 platform is considerably less tedious than the iPhone or Android."

Developers are going to go where the user is. Users aren't going to care about whether developers have an easy time or not.

MS had a brilliant 3-point strategy for dominating the desktop market (one point being developer support). But it just doesn't apply to the completely different mobile phone market.

[tacticalogic]

Developers are going to go where the user is. Users aren't going to care about whether developers have an easy time or not.

Users choose a platform/OS based on the applications they want to run. Making it easier to get developers on board results in more applications being available. Users will go where the applications are, and the applications will be where the developers are.