微軟能買來多少iPhone應用開發者？

????上周五早間，《紐約時報》（New York Times）商業版頭版刊登了杰娜?沃斯漢姆和尼克?維費爾德共同撰寫的文章《微軟自掏腰包充實應用軟件商店》（Microsoft Is Writing Checks to Fill Out Its App Store）。兩天后，Nokia Lumia 900橫空出世。

????Lumia 900是微軟（Microsoft）和諾基亞（Nokia）合作的第一個成果，但是，眼看免費手機以及在Windows Phone應用軟件商店中提供黃金位置的承諾都不足以吸引不情愿的軟件開發商為Lumia 900編寫應用軟件，微軟據稱已經開始自掏腰包來承擔一部分開發成本。應用軟件的開發成本可能從6萬美元到60萬美元不等。

????據《紐約時報》報道，獲得微軟資金相助、為Windows Phone操作系統編寫應用軟件的軟件開發商包括：

????? 社交定位網站Foursquare的創作公司Foursquare

????? 流行貓咪網站I Can Has Cheezburger?的創作公司Cheezburger Network

????? 以及《憤怒的小鳥》的出品公司Rovio（請注意弦外之音）

????《紐約時報》的報道稱，等到Lumia 900開售時，Windows Phone應用軟件商店將有超過7萬款軟件，包括在線視頻租賃服務Netflix、YouTube、氣象頻道（the Weather Channel）、Amazon Kindle和水果忍者（Fruit Ninjas）。依然缺席的是：流媒體音樂服務Pandora、圖片分享服務Instagram以及所有的Zynga社交游戲。

????“我們對目前的產品目錄完全不滿意，”Windows Phone高級營銷經理卡西?麥克吉告訴《紐約時報》。“我們還有改進空間，我們每天都在取得進展。”

????根據最近的統計，蘋果公司（Apple）有超過60萬個應用軟件，而谷歌（Google）安卓系統也有近40萬個應用軟件。

????譯者：早稻米

????A nice piece of reporting by Jenna Wortham and Nick Wingfield landed on the front page of the New York Times Business section Friday morning, two days before the launch of the Nokia Lumia 900.

????When free phones and promises of prime real estate on the Windows Phone app store wasn't enough to get reluctant developers to write software for the new device -- the first fruit of a collaboration between Microsoft (MSFT) and Nokia (NOK) -- Microsoft reportedly starting writing checks to cover some of the cost of development, which can run anywhere from $60,000 to $600,000.

????Among the developers that, according to the Times, have been paid to write for the Windows Phone OS:

????? Foursquare, creator of Foursquare

????? Cheezburger Network, creator of I Can Has Cheezburger?

????? and (reading between the lines) Rovio, maker of Angry Birds

????By the time the Lumia 900 is released, the Times reports, the Windows Phone app store will have more than 70,000 titles, including Netflix, YouTube, the Weather Channel, Amazon Kindle and Fruit Ninjas. Still missing: Pandora, Instagram and all the Zynga games.

????"We are by no means satisfied with our catalog," Casey McGee, senior marketing manager for Windows Phone, told the Times. "That's something we can get better at, and do better at, every day."

????At last count, Apple (AAPL) had more than 600,000 apps and Google's (GOOG) Android nearly 400,000.