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Mobile Operators Fight App Store Fragmentation

Posted by kdawson on from the preferring-trifurcation dept.

angry tapir writes "Twenty-four mobile network operators have formed the Wholesale Applications Community to avoid fragmenting the apps market and to give developers one point of entry to all the members. The Wholesale Applications Community members include: AT&T, China Mobile, Deutsche Telekom, NTT DoCoMo, Orange, Telefónica, Telenor Group, Sprint, Verizon Wireless, and Vodafone." The vision seems to be eventually to create one unified app market in addition to Google's and Apple's. The article quotes an analyst noting that the mobile operators have "a poor track record with this type of industry consortium."

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  1. Re:Buying goldfish food by c6gunner · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    And come on! It's BadAnalogyGuy!!! The analogy is as advertised.

    I'd like to request that a new moderation category be added: "-1 BadAnalogyGuy"

  2. Mod abuse by Max+Littlemore · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    C'mon, the guys name is BadAnalogyGuy and he makes a really bad yet on topic anaolgy. Geez.

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  3. Re:Buying goldfish food by Max+Littlemore · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    So your saying that the post you replied to was a bit like a car with manual transmission where the gear positions are labelled R 2 4 across the top and 1 3 5 along the bottom when in fact the linkages are such that it should be 1 3 5 along the top and 2 4 R along the bottom?

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