WP application developers can't make ends meet, resulting in the application being taken off the shelf.

Today, the developer of WeatherFlow, a popular weather application abroad, announced the news that the application was removed from the WindowsPhone store, and also gave the reason for the removal: the income could not make ends meet.

In a statement, the developer said that as the weather data provider of WeatherFlow has raised the data price, the operation of WeatherFlow has continued to lose money, and he can no longer bear the high data cost. Now he has to pay the data provider a monthly data access fee of $65,438+$0,500, while WeatherFlow only brought him $500 last month. Before he found a weather data supplier with lower price, he had to delete WeatherFlow to stop the loss.

Many developers who have built-in advertisements in their applications know that the first six months of the new application are very difficult to operate because of the low advertising rate. But if popular applications like WeatherFlow can't make a living, it's difficult for a large number of unknown application developers.

According to a recent survey of developers by VisionMobile, nearly three-quarters of WP developers earn less than $500 a month, so it is impossible to set up their own businesses.

In addition to the small number of users, WP developers also face a series of other challenges, such as most users come from underdeveloped markets, Microsoft's Pubcentre inventory has been very low, and Google Advertising has not released the SDK of WP8. 1.

In many ways, Win 10 will be the lifeline of WP developers, because developers can rely on Windows 10 to quickly increase the number of users of applications, and the advertising rate in Win 10 large-screen devices will be higher.