BiteReads is now on the Microsoft store!
Back in January, I wrote about the steps I went through in submitting apps to various app stores. To summarize, Google Play happened just fine, the Microsoft Store version was rejected, and iOS wasn't possible as they don't support this type of applications.
Things changed in the meantime, and I'm happy to report that BiteReads is now available on the Microsoft Store, giving it some extra exposure! You might be wondering what happened in the past eight months to allow this.
With the upcoming release of Windows 11, Microsoft announced a set of changes to the rules of their applications store. One that caught my eye quickly was the fact that they now allow third party payment platforms, as long as that's clearly mentioned. This was the very problem locking me out initially: as BiteReads requires a connection to the Pocket service, people were getting redirected to their platform on login, also giving them a detour to their paid features. Under the new policy, this was allowed, so I went back to work. I modified the product description to cover this directly, updated the in-app description accordingly, submitted the new version, and it was approved after about a day! This means that two of the largest platforms are now within my reach for this and any future project I release.
You can now download it from the Microsoft Store, along with the already available Android version on Google Play.
– Doctacosa