Comments on: App Stores are the New Deck

By: About Mobility » Blog Archive » App Stores - from exciting to boring (in just one week)

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 03:30:34 +0000

[...] When app stores first came out, I was very excited. Finally, I said, all the right pieces, all together, all correctly placed: the integrated catalog that allows for easy application discovery, the download over the air that works, integrated billing/payment, the ecosystem, the business model, and apps that work. The realization was that app stores were the new deck. [...]

By: About Mobility » Blog Archive » On Nokia’s App Store Strategy

About Mobility » Blog Archive » On Nokia’s App Store Strategy — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:55:20 +0000

[...] world where the weight of the ecosystem is moving beyond the network operators and devices, where (App) Stores are the New Deck, and where the power is shitfing to the consumer (and is powered by the developer [...]

By: Ring! Ring! Hot News, 17th November 2008 - Telco 2.0 - TM Forum Community

Ring! Ring! Hot News, 17th November 2008 - Telco 2.0 - TM Forum Community — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:15:14 +0000

[...] mobile OS wars are well and truly on. As are the app store wars; they are the new deck, it says here. In fact, carriers ought to hope they are nothing like the deck, which is a failed business model; [...]

By: Bill Scott, GetJar

Bill Scott, GetJar — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:27:05 +0000

Enrique, thanks for this post.

We believe that the app store is just one part of a larger Mobile Developer ecosystem, that includes the actual store, the beta testing, the tertiary distribution of app stores back through carrier decks, the phone OEM’s, the platform developers, dev tool suppliers like Tira, Device Anywhere, Flurry, etc. Carriers are picking up on this, and so are linking to off deck app stores that have an ecosystem attached. Please see this article in MocoNews for more info: http://www.moconews.net/entry/419-interview-getjar-is-everyones-app-store

So, yes, vertically app stores like iTunes, GetJar, etc. are deeper because they provide better search, onboarding, cataloging, and monetization and generally a better end user experience than carriers can offer; but the more important trend is the HORIZONTAL extension of the app store into a broader ecosystem that incorporates synergistic services that complement app store success. See this post in Mobile Marketer for more info: http://www.mobilemarketer.com/cms/opinion/columns/2040.html

By: Jean-Marc

Jean-Marc — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:52:28 +0000

App stores are not limited to mobile world. Every Linux distributor use his ‘app store’ system (apt, yast…).

This is one reason why application installation on linux is since a long time much easier then in windows (compare “apt-get search|intall myapp” to “where is the web site of the vendor, download, execute the setup …”).

I wonder since years why MS doesn’t include an app store into Windows to ease software distribution. Now that app stores become popular I’m sure MS is working on such a feature for one of the upcoming windows versions…