The customer experience of a windows 8 phone

The latest release of iOS 7 must have filled windows 8 developers with joy as they looked on at their rivals latest offering with smirking glances and harsh critique. Apple seem to have lost the beautiful edge they previously raved about adopting a more clinical and functional interface which has opened doors for android and windows. The windows 8 platform sits inside the Nokia devices and offers its tiled view of the world in place of the familiar iconic sheets in Apple and android. The world of windows is much more vertically aligned as you swipe down to reveal portlets to the various corners of functionality. The interface is more fluid than some android devices with a glitch free experience and hugely different to the Nokia's of old. While the interface is a departure from the iPhone that is sold on intuitiveness it is still very accessible with my nine year old able to quickly work out the camera and change the lock screen without any questions. The user interface is extremely good although not to everyone's taste but for anyone foreign to smart phone usage they would no doubt be thrilled with its capabilities. The killer difference for this will be the applications. Without these it will never be epic and risk following blackberry to the mobile graveyard. Windows 8, where are the apps?