Windows Phone 8 Not working making apps for?

So according to the latest stats (not based on radom browser based methods, but based on units sold).
Shows

Android - 81.3%
iPhone - 13.4%
Windows Phone - 4.1%
Blackberry - 1%
Other - 0.2%

Which just under 5% puts windows in a pretty wide user based. No where near android of course buy why are companies not willing to put Apps on their road map for windows? The biggest thing that brought up this question is the fact I wanted to use my Sophos VPN from my phone. Yet companies don't think windows phone is worth looking at. Sonicwall, Checkpoint, F5 Networks, Juniper (among others) have already publisher their vpn ssl plugins for windows phone. Just doesn't make sense why Sophos wouldn't at least put in on their roadmap.

Though it does seem to be that most agree with Sophos there's no point in making it for windows: http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/926873-sophos-ssl-vpn-client

scottalanmiller

There are more factors than just size of userbase. It also matters what that userbase is. I know of no company using Windows Phone but lots that officially use iPhone and Android. The Windows Phone user base, I think, is more consumer than the other two. Maybe not in percentage of phone users, but in percentage of business user market.

And I've had a Windows phone.... even if Sophos had an app you'd have no way to find it. You'd have hundreds of apps called Sophos that are actually malware.

What app store are you looking in? https://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store

scottalanmiller

@thecreativeone91 said:

What app store are you looking in? https://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store

The one on the phone. Worst feature of the phone. You search for a common app that you want and you get scores of results of malware, all with the exact name of the product and/or company that you were looking for.

scottalanmiller

It was a key reason that we left the phones. Unusable and unsafe.

@scottalanmiller said:

@thecreativeone91 said:

What app store are you looking in? https://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store

The one on the phone. Worst feature of the phone. You search for a common app that you want and you get scores of results of malware, all with the exact name of the product and/or company that you were looking for.

I've never had that happen. and I've had a few different windows phones.

scottalanmiller

@thecreativeone91 said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@thecreativeone91 said:

What app store are you looking in? https://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store

The one on the phone. Worst feature of the phone. You search for a common app that you want and you get scores of results of malware, all with the exact name of the product and/or company that you were looking for.

I've never had that happen. and I've had a few different windows phones.

We had a few. But there is only one store. It was very much a "CloudatCost" level of service. Looked good till you actually search for an app then realized you had no assurance of which one was real. It made me appreciate the lock down of the iOS system that someone was vetting the vendors and at least attempting to ensure that products weren't trying to trick you.

Biggest ones were things like the Chrome browser. Search for it and it didn't exist, but hundreds of things called that did.