Release Candidate One with Chris Clark

An interesting peek into the thought process behind Windows Phone 7. There’s a fun slide seven minutes in, complaining that the average application on competing platforms is used only once, and that only 1% of downloaded apps are used regularly in the long run.

99% of apps are forgotten in the long run because 99% of apps are crap, and it costs you very little in time or money to install them. It’s a lofty goal for Windows Phone 7 that the majority of its apps should be universally useful and long-cherished by all who touch them, but I’m a little flabbergasted that Microsoft believes it can foil Sturgeon’s Law with a slogan and a design aesthetic.