App Stores
When Apple launched the iPhone, it changed the mobile competitive landscape with a new approach to the user experience. Most significantly, this provided an attractive user interface that was tightly integrated with an application store. The success of the original App Store has led almost every vendor to copy it, and many operators too.
Rethink Wireless tracks the performance of the main app stores on a regular basis, highlighting their progress in terms of application numbers, revenues, billing mechanisms and other key metrics. This helps create a detailed picture of how the main stores are competing and differentiating themselves.
Important trends include the race between App Store and Android Market; the rise of other major vendor platforms like Nokia Ovi Store or Microsoft’s WP7 shopfront; and the attempt by carriers like Verizon Wireless or China Mobile to enter the game in their own right.
Amazon opens app store in China
When Amazon opened its Kindle ebook store in China in December, it was expected to be the stalking horse to launch its Android platform too, stepping up its efforts to oust Google as the leading app s ...
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Google to enhance gaming in Play
13 May, 2013
With Sony, Microsoft and Amazon working on mobile games platforms, Google+ is key weapon to boost search player's brand
B&N turns to Google, not Microsoft, for apps base
3 May, 2013
Nook tablets will now feature full access to Google Play, ignoring ties with B&N's digital partner Microsoft
New Android complaint in Europe
9 April, 2013
Microsoft, Nokia, Oracle, others raise complaint that Android is a Trojan horse for Google Apps
Japanese cellcos step up gaming moves
26 March, 2013
Softbank takes control of web content firm GungHo, while Docomo launches its 'd game' service with China Mobile
Android and Chrome will not merge, says Schmidt
22 March, 2013
Google chairman denies two key reports, that the two OSs are converging and that Google Now has been barred from iOS App Store
BlackBerry World now 100,000 apps strong
22 March, 2013
Impressive milestone marked with arrival of a slew of new titles
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