14 DAY TRIAL // We've already reported a few times this year about developers that decided to pull their apps from Windows Phone Store for various reasons.
Some complained that they couldn't financially sustain Windows Phone development anymore due to low income, whereas other preferred to focus their resources entirely on Android and iOS.
Today, another developer that has recently launched its Windows Phone application has announced that it's pulling it from the Store and will reevaluate how it will approach the Windows platform in the coming months.
Scribd, the popular e-reading subscriptions service that made it to Windows Phone Store last summer, has now removed its Windows Phone application. Here is the company's official statement, as reported by WindowsCentral:
“We were excited to test the waters with Windows and a WebApp last fall was our first step in that direction. Since then, we've reviewed all the user feedback, and in order to ensure our readers are receiving the best reading experience possible, we decided to pull that version of the app while reevaluating how we'd like to move forward on the Windows platform.”
Too few subscriptions might be the reason for pulling the app
This might either mean that Scribd developer is waiting for Microsoft to launch Windows 10 for Phones and release a much better application or it is now considering pulling it out from Windows Phone development completely due to the low income.
Scribd service allows users to read more than 400,000 e-books for an $8.99 monthly fee. There's a chance that the service didn't get enough subscriptions in order to justify supporting Windows Phone development, though Scribd devs did not confirm this speculation.
Only time will tell whether or not Scribd is readying a universal app for Windows 10 in the coming months. Here is hoping that developers will stop pulling their apps from Windows Phone Store and deciding to focus solely on other platforms.