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		deelowe on Jan 29, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microsoft to invest in Cyanogen Sounds like a good way to get a bunch of terrible, unsupported apps into your ecosystem. Not sure that would help things.

detaro on Jan 29, 2015 [–]

Yep, it got them tons of pong games and stuff like that.

FWIW, Microsoft was giving out a lot of free developer devices, too.

duskwuff on Jan 30, 2015 | [–]

For a while, Microsoft was flat-out giving developers $100 for every app they published:

http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/19/4124548/microsoft-paying-d...

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