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.
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21 February, 2012
Reports indicate Apple will stick with the 4S's timeframe, while also preparing revamp of iTunes and App Store
AT&T puts new weight behind HTML5 apps
10 January, 2012
Launches API platform for web developers and previews Appcenter store for Android devices
Microsoft boosts W8 with generous developer deals
8 December, 2011
Windows 8 store could offer 80% cut to programmers, but uncertainty remains over whether desktop apps will come to ARM platform
Apps will be vital to change Nokia's fortunes
23 November, 2011
Finnish vendor's shares slide on downgraded analyst forecast for Lumia; it must build up app store to crack US next year
Telenor opens Android store in 11 countries
16 November, 2011
Operator partners with Google to create a store within a store in Android Market, with enhanced ease of use
China Mobile demands Apple revenue share
9 November, 2011
Reports indicate that the two firms' talks have hit stalemate yet again, with the giant cellco aiming for a new balance of power
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