While the Apple App Store keeps growing (just added 500 million downloads since April - see http://gigaom.com/2009/07/14/the-meteoric-rise-of-the-app-store/), Verizon announced that no vendor-specific app stores will ship on phones sold by Verizon phones (see http://gigaom.com/2009/07/13/verizon-to-mobile-developers-can-you-hear-me-now/), only the Verizon app store. So that would probably mean that there'll be no Java app store on these phones, either. It seems you can still download the app stores (Java, Blackberry, Microsoft, Nokia etc.) afterwards, but for users, these app stores will have less traction than the Verizon store coming by default.
This highlights a problem for Sun/Oracle, Microsoft and Adobe (if they ever put out an app store): If the device is sold by an operator or a vendor, they are inclined to put their app store on it, not any of the "other app stores". Now Apple controls the whole platform and can make sure there's only one official app store (don't know if they share any revenue with an operator if an app is bought, say, on an AT&T iPhone). So how important or unimportant is that the for the Java App Store on phones? I thought that's where Sun should have started with their app store (Apple showed people are willing to download and pay for apps on mobile devices), not on the desktop (where users generally seem less inclined to pay for content IMHO). --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
