I'm here to call out the Windows Bloggers and Journalists who are failing the platform by leaving valuable app discovery opportunities on the table. Why do I feel this way? I have written over 60 apps for Windows Phone and 40 apps on Windows 8, granted I do not have the next Angry Birds or Facebook, however one should not need to be Facebook or Rovio to get a mention from a Windows Blogger or Journalist on a twitter stream or to get an article or review written and published. In the past 3 years, I have had 1 article written about one of my apps, by a guy who actually didn't even install or use the app, he wrote the article based on the app description and that was it.

iOS and Android bloggers and journalists seem to be killing it in comparison to what is happening on Windows. Take for example, DONKEY.BAS, the BASIC language game written originally by Neil Konzen and Bill Gates, yeah that Bill Gates. Anyway, as a matter of course, I use DONKEY.BAS as a 'hello world' if you will to introduce myself to each new development platform I start using. Most recently, I ported over DONKEY.BAS for Windows Phone, and I ported DONKEY.BAS for Windows 8.

If you can find an article on the internet about either one of those two, congratulations. (Send me a link?)

In stark contrast to that, a developer called x-vision brought DONKEY.BAS to iOS.

http://technologizer.com/2012/01/28/donkey-bas-is-back/
http://www.retrogamescollector.com/donkey-bas-by-xvision-for-ipad-and-iphone-reviewed/#sthash.fcZzXNLv.dpbs
http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/donkey.bas_for_ios_revives_dos_game_co-created_by_bill_gates
http://www.ubergizmo.com/2012/02/donkey-bas-now-on-ios/
http://randomanimations27.blogspot.com/2012/03/donkeybas-ios-review.html
http://www.theverge.com/2012/2/10/2788534/first-pc-game-ios-donkey-bas-bill-gates
http://www.jacehallshow.com/blog/20120127/dos-game-co-created-by-bill-gates-returns-as-donkey-bas-ios-app/
http://www.thefullsignal.com/products/10915/ios-releases-remake-worlds-first-pc-game-donkeybas
http://wccvoice.org/remake-of-donkey-bas/
http://www.knowyourmobile.com/games/16142/bill-gates-donkey-video-game-comes-ios

And that is just page one of the results!!!

Hell, even a windows blog covered the damn iOS version:
http://news.thewindowsclub.com/xvision-creates-remake-donkeybas-game-cowriten-bill-gates-ios-43872/

You don't have to write about DONKEY.BAS, you don't have to write about my apps, but PLEASE go into the store and find some app that is not a major national brand already featured and publicized by Microsoft in the store and in their media. Best Buy and Facebook and Redbox and Netflix don't need you to write about their apps, they are there, they have already been written about, they get featured repetitively on the homepages of the stores, Go find an app that's not one of the above and write about it.

I'd love to hear thoughts from other developers from any platform and the bloggers and journalists about this topic. Is my perception off base? misdirected? Let me hear it!

* I do understand you guys do write about the apps. Perhaps the stars just aligned here, I know there is a lot of article copying in the blogs sand other media. And it's ok that the attention was given to someone else, I'm not trying to hate on success, just trying to get some myself. It is just frustrating for Windows developers to see more articles for a parallel app on a competing platform than downloads on your own two platforms combined.