The apps are also crappy quality, many just being wrappers for YouTube channels. The reviews are somehow worse than YouTube comments. Even their &quot;top&quot; charts have random crap in it like &quot;FreeFlix Free Movies&quot; or &quot;Free Mp3 Downloader&quot;. For a while, MS was extremely uncooperative with trademark issues (Netflix had to get fake Netflix apps removed several times; other ISVs reported MS just wouldn&#x27;t respond at all, even on well-known and obvious scam apps.)<p>Even now, searching for &quot;Game of Thrones&quot; leads to a scam $5 paid app that doesn&#x27;t even have a website.<p>MS actually paid to help create this scenario. They were offering $100 or $200 per app for shovelware.<p>There seems to be zero QC or curation or any sense of class in the Windows Store. So they get the downsides of a closed platform, with the downsides of just letting people publish crap. Even Google Play is better.