Comments on: Only one App Store can compete with Apple http://www.aqa.63336.com/blog/mobile-marketing/only-one-app-store-can-compete-with-apple/ Casting an eye on the mobile industry Tue, 17 Jan 2012 01:28:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: James Katt http://www.aqa.63336.com/blog/mobile-marketing/only-one-app-store-can-compete-with-apple/comment-page-1/#comment-483 James Katt Wed, 17 Feb 2010 03:26:22 +0000 http://213.52.199.54/blog/?p=32#comment-483 Getting everyone to cooperate in order to fight Apple WILL LOSE. The problem is that each company has their own goals. Cooperation means each company becomes less significant in the grand scheme of things. It becomes a single state in a continent of states - like the European Union. Each company will come to realize that they will have to BEND OVER to the wishes of the majority in such a union of companies. Given the mish mash of incompatible screen sizes, CPUs, and hardware features, it all becomes difficult to create for the many different handsets available. Apple has a HUGE advantage in having very similar and compatible hardware. Competitors don't. Getting everyone to cooperate in order to fight Apple WILL LOSE.

The problem is that each company has their own goals. Cooperation means each company becomes less significant in the grand scheme of things. It becomes a single state in a continent of states – like the European Union. Each company will come to realize that they will have to BEND OVER to the wishes of the majority in such a union of companies.

Given the mish mash of incompatible screen sizes, CPUs, and hardware features, it all becomes difficult to create for the many different handsets available.

Apple has a HUGE advantage in having very similar and compatible hardware. Competitors don’t.

]]> By: Stephen Williams http://www.aqa.63336.com/blog/mobile-marketing/only-one-app-store-can-compete-with-apple/comment-page-1/#comment-472 Stephen Williams Mon, 15 Feb 2010 13:21:22 +0000 http://213.52.199.54/blog/?p=32#comment-472 It is good to see that the industry is slowly waking up to this idea as this article in the Register explains http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/15/mobile_apps_all/. Now if Nokia get on board and the industry sorts out the outstanding problems with JAVA ME apps ( http://www.aqa.63336.com/blog/category/mobile-development/ ), we might truely get an App store to compete with Apple It is good to see that the industry is slowly waking up to this idea as this article in the Register explains http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/15/mobile_apps_all/. Now if Nokia get on board and the industry sorts out the outstanding problems with JAVA ME apps ( http://www.aqa.63336.com/blog/category/mobile-development/ ), we might truely get an App store to compete with Apple

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]]> By: Jonathan Watson http://www.aqa.63336.com/blog/mobile-marketing/only-one-app-store-can-compete-with-apple/comment-page-1/#comment-7 Jonathan Watson Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:10:41 +0000 http://213.52.199.54/blog/?p=32#comment-7 Pundits often bemoan the closed nature of Apple's iPhone platform but it allows them to present a consistent easy to use interface for finding applications, something that other players in the value chain struggle with. I agree a single platform for delivering Java ME apps would be great but I can't see the handset manufacturers and network operators ever reconciling their different commercial interests to the point where this could happen. That's not to say there aren't third parties out there trying, there is a great site called GetJar which raised significant funding from Accel Partners a couple of years back and has a substantial following. If the carriers and handset manufacturers were to back an independent application store then perhaps there would be hope for a one stop solution but right now it seems that they're content to try and cannibalise each others content offerings. Pundits often bemoan the closed nature of Apple’s iPhone platform but it allows them to present a consistent easy to use interface for finding applications, something that other players in the value chain struggle with. I agree a single platform for delivering Java ME apps would be great but I can’t see the handset manufacturers and network operators ever reconciling their different commercial interests to the point where this could happen. That’s not to say there aren’t third parties out there trying, there is a great site called GetJar which raised significant funding from Accel Partners a couple of years back and has a substantial following.

If the carriers and handset manufacturers were to back an independent application store then perhaps there would be hope for a one stop solution but right now it seems that they’re content to try and cannibalise each others content offerings.

]]> By: Rob Charlton http://www.aqa.63336.com/blog/mobile-marketing/only-one-app-store-can-compete-with-apple/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Rob Charlton Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:38:13 +0000 http://213.52.199.54/blog/?p=32#comment-6 I agree completely, but I think the other side of this is the usability of the end to end app store experience. Apple have really nailed the use case - "I want a twitter client. Launch store. Find twitter. Buy. Icon appears on my phone". Every other phone I have used hides 3rd party apps inside several levels of nested folders. Java midlets are often stored under "games" even when they are business apps. So I would extend the "one store" idea to encompass: Store icon is somewhere obvious on my phone. Store is easy and fast to navigate. After app purchase, app can be found somewhere obvious on my phone. I agree completely, but I think the other side of this is the usability of the end to end app store experience. Apple have really nailed the use case – “I want a twitter client. Launch store. Find twitter. Buy. Icon appears on my phone”.
Every other phone I have used hides 3rd party apps inside several levels of nested folders. Java midlets are often stored under “games” even when they are business apps. So I would extend the “one store” idea to encompass:
Store icon is somewhere obvious on my phone.
Store is easy and fast to navigate.
After app purchase, app can be found somewhere obvious on my phone.

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