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If you've got a Windows Phone 8 device that runs on 512MB of RAM, you'll no doubt be aware that some apps won't work. In fact, you can't even download them from the Windows Phone Store. It's because they need at least 1GB RAM to operate.
The phones with the lower RAM include the Nokia Lumia 520, 521, 620 and 720 as well as the HTC 8S.
But exactly how many apps are incompatible?
Well, not many, according to an investigation carried out by website All About Windows Phone.
Out of 149,078 currently live (active) content items that we are currently tracking in the Windows Phone 8 Store, 331 (0.24%) are not compatible with 512MB devices. When just looking at the games category, which has the highest proportion of incompatible content items, these figures are 65 out of 17,029 items (0.361%).And what makes it more interesting....
However, the absolute numbers hide some interesting details. Of the 331 incompatible items, 199 come from just two developers: Manna and AppDesigner.com. Manna provides city guides apps, while AppDesigner.com provides video-based tutorial apps. Both developers are using app templates to create multiple similar apps. There's nothing wrong with this approach, provided the apps are of reasonable quality, but apps from these developers make up nearly two thirds of the apps incompatible with lower specification devices. Excluding the results of these two developers would give an incompatibility percentage of just 0.088% (less than one in a thousand apps).Read the All About Windows Phone report here.
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