The Microsoft cut is 30% unless you app is very successful – as soon as it reaches a certain threshold in earnings (the number 25.000$ appeared somewhere), Microsofts cut lowers to 20%.Microsoft here copied from Apple where it made sense, which is basically everywhere. For example it’s the same mechanic of declaring which permissions your app needs to work, if it needs to have access to your location, sensors, etc. Most of the other technological stuff that was mentioned is already known to everyone who looked at the Apple store concepts. On everything needed is shown, including design decisions, metrics and what you need to design a Metro interface app. The Metro Design Language is nice, clean and minimalist. For Metro apps at least. With Windows 8, every Metro app that Microsoft thinks to be a good design example for Metro will be shoved into a large amount of people’s eyes. The tablet users will only have the Metro interface as the only desktop apps working will be the office products Microsoft preinstalls.

Everyone of those people will see the windows market and everyone who tries to use the Metro interface will very early need to have a live ID, which enables them to enter the windows market. I guess the Vista users, some of the XP users (XP support is over) and everyone buying a new PC will have Windows 8. It was presented that we now have about 600M Windows installations, and googling just found that half of them is on XP, 6% Vista and the rest Win7.

Ithoughts for android