Verizon will in January of 2013 start removing the Verizon Apps application from all compatible Android and Research in Motion devices.
Verizon expects to have all apps shut down by March 27, 2013. Most of those apps already are available on multiple app storefronts, such as Google PLAY, Amazon and BlackBerry App World.
That does not necessarily mean that no mobile service provider, or consortium of providers, can operate a high-volume mobile app store. But the hurdles are tall. Telefonica also earlier in 2012 shut down its branded app store.
The Wholesale Applications Community was intended to help service providers gain more scale, faster, but most observers say that initiative has foundered. Most people assume their device supplier, their operating system supplier or an independent app store will have what they want.
Monday, November 5, 2012
Verizon Shuts Own its App Store
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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