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T-Mo planning iPhone app store equivalent?

Started by Ewan · 10 months ago

T-Mobile USA has announced it’s planning on taking a leaf out of Apple’s book by opening up its development platform. The end result? A T-Mobile-a-like of the iPhone App Store, according to a report on Moconews, which will let developers submit their apps designed for T-Mobile phones in return for a share of the revenue [...] ... Continue reading »

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  • juliancooling

    10 months ago

    I don't see how this wil work. It will set up an expectation amongst users that every application will work across the range of devices - which is the Apple "everything works with a click" advertising position.

    How will they deliver this? Developers will target a single platform (or worse, device) never the whole range (because they can't: you can't even do it with Symbian accross the Series 60/UIQ divide!). The PR will be great and then the PR will be dreadful.

    Everyone is going to get frustrated and then grumpy. I can smell another failed venture even from here.
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