Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Can Carrier “App Stores” Beat Apple App Store or Google Play?

Carriers such as AT&T and Verizon may very well get into the app store space to compete with Apple and third-party app stores like Getjar, argues Infonetics Research analyst Shira Levine.

The carriers' differentiation would be the ability to offer Android and browser-based applications in a one-stop-shopping environment. "AT&T learned a valuable lesson with the iPhone," says Levine. "They’re not part of the revenue value chain."

As a result, she says, "[carriers] are envisioning OS-independent app stores, which consumers could access no matter what device you had and even do so across multiple devices."

That’s part of the thinking behind the Wholesale Applications Community. Will it work?

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