(17 Sep 2015, 1:13 pm)BusLoverMum wrote Windows on phones is so stripped down that it can be quite hard to write full functional apps for it, equivalent in capability to the Android and iOS versions. While the market is growing, it's possibly not stable. Of course there's the chicken and egg situation of developers not writing apps for Windows phones because it's not cost effective, but then people don't keep their windows phones because there's hardly any apps for them and the ones that there are are often quite limited.

I did have a windows phone. Replaced it with Android and husband now uses my old phone for testing code!

Time and time again, Windows users are told by companies, that apps aren't developed, because the demand isn't there.
They're either telling porkies and it is - or as you say, maybe the market is not stable.

Totally agree about the chicken and egg situation.
However, I think both Microsoft and the developers need to up the ante.

I think this article sums it up nicely. Whilst there have been improvements, more needs to be done - http://www.cnet.com/uk/news/windows-phone-apps-fix/