????上周五早間，《紐約時(shí)報(bào)》（New York Times）商業(yè)版頭版刊登了杰娜?沃斯?jié)h姆和尼克?維費(fèi)爾德共同撰寫的文章《微軟自掏腰包充實(shí)應(yīng)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(gè)成果，但是，眼看免費(fèi)手機(jī)以及在Windows Phone應(yīng)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(fā)商為Lumia 900編寫應(yīng)用軟件，微軟據(jù)稱已經(jīng)開始自掏腰包來承擔(dān)一部分開發(fā)成本。應(yīng)用軟件的開發(fā)成本可能從6萬美元到60萬美元不等。

????據(jù)《紐約時(shí)報(bào)》報(bào)道，獲得微軟資金相助、為Windows Phone操作系統(tǒng)編寫應(yīng)用軟件的軟件開發(fā)商包括：

????? 社交定位網(wǎng)站Foursquare的創(chuàng)作公司Foursquare

????? 流行貓咪網(wǎng)站I Can Has Cheezburger?的創(chuàng)作公司Cheezburger Network

????? 以及《憤怒的小鳥》的出品公司Rovio（請(qǐng)注意弦外之音）

????《紐約時(shí)報(bào)》的報(bào)道稱，等到Lumia 900開售時(shí)，Windows Phone應(yīng)用軟件商店將有超過7萬款軟件，包括在線視頻租賃服務(wù)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(wù)Pandora、圖片分享服務(wù)Instagram以及所有的Zynga社交游戲。

????“我們對(duì)目前的產(chǎn)品目錄完全不滿意，”Windows Phone高級(jí)營銷經(jīng)理卡西?麥克吉告訴《紐約時(shí)報(bào)》。“我們還有改進(jìn)空間，我們每天都在取得進(jìn)展。”

????根據(jù)最近的統(tǒng)計(jì)，蘋果公司（Apple）有超過60萬個(gè)應(yīng)用軟件，而谷歌（Google）安卓系統(tǒng)也有近40萬個(gè)應(yīng)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.