Thanks to the overwhelmingly positive response; we are delighted to announce that the WP7 development community will continue to have free use of PreEmptive Solutions Runtime Intelligence for Windows Phone until further notice.
What does “until further notice” mean? We heard loud and clear that a lot of you actually held back and chose not to take advantage of the initial offer because you were nervous about the service being suddenly taken away and so, in addition to extending the free offer, we are committing that we will not make any changes to this offer without a minimum of a 60 day notice (and we have no plans at this time to make any changes).
Here are some of the main goals for application analytics:
• Measure adoption & activity
• Improve user experience
• Measure and improve quality
• Simplify and improve support
• Enable user profiling
What specifically are WP developers using analytics for? Here are just a few examples…
• Improving the feature split between trial and paid versions of marketplace applications.
• Responding more rapidly to user preferences, settings, and search strings to provide better defaults and prioritize/expose features that improve user experience.
• Capturing exceptions to improve user support and application quality.
• Tracking ad placement effectiveness within an application (are ads more effective at the 3rd level of a game or at the start?)
Do you have other use case scenarios? One you wish we could support? Let us know – we intend to continue to expand and improve this service for a long time to come.
And of course, if you haven’t already registered yourself, go to http://www.preemptive.com/know-more/windows-phone-7 and jump start your development today.