Microsoft Teams
part of Microsoft includes Microsoft Teams Store, Microsoft Teams App Store
10 statements across 2 episodes · 3 bullish · 4 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Mar 26, 2021 by Hilton Gisenau · said 55 times in 8 episodes since 2020 · across every show →
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Mar 26, 2021 negative
Gisenau: ChitChattr faced Teams rejections from conflicting internal Microsoft requirements
“We had, for example, portions of our app get rejected because of requirements that were coming through from the main team's engineering team to the store validation team that would like literally just in conflict with one another.”
Mar 26, 2021 positive
Gisenau: ChitChattr cut Teams app verification from one month to two days
“To give you an idea of that, our first app was probably about a month or so of verification backwards and forwards. The last app was on the order of like two days. I think there were two minor things they came back with. We fixed them and resubmitted and we we…”
Mar 26, 2021 positive
Mar 26, 2021 neutral
Mar 26, 2021
Gisenau: Platform apps require complex IP moats to survive platform competition
“I think what one needs to do is in considering whether the product makes sense is not just whether it's a, you know, fulfills a business need, but whether it's the kind of product that you can build significant IP into to make sure that your moat's big enough.…”
Mar 26, 2021 negative
Gisenau: Microsoft rejected a functional Teams app for lacking business value
“We've got a few apps that we've built. One of them never made it to the actual store itself. We went through the entire process, the verifications, there were a few bugs that were raised. We addressed all of those things, et cetera. And at the end of it, Micro…”
Mar 26, 2021 neutral
Gisenau: Building a Teams bot requires mastering 7-8 separate technologies
“One of those, for instance, is building a bot. You might want to put a bot into the store and there are probably seven or eight separate technologies you kind of need to get yourself or your team skilled up on in order to build a, you know, natural language, u…”
Mar 26, 2021 negative
Gisenau: Teams users mistakenly expect marketplace apps to be free
“One of the things we've found, for example, is that users are quite surprised that there's a pricing involved for the purchase of our apps. We've had a number of customers or a number of feedback items, shall we say, from users who've been quite surprised that…”
Mar 26, 2021 positive
Gisenau: Microsoft Teams takes zero cut of app revenue
“On the Microsoft side, there's no charging model. There's no fee model at all. On the one hand, that's kind of a little bit of a negative. There's no charging model built in, so there's no model natively in the platform to charge customers. The positive of tha…”
Feb 22, 2023 negative