Verizon Plans to Build Yet Another App Store Wednesday Aug 20 2014 12:23 EDT Verizon has a long history of trying to operate their own app store they hope will challenge iTunes and Google's Play Store, and failing miserably at it because as a legacy company they're simply not very good at being disruptive or innovative. Not to be daunted, reports indicate that Verizon is working on yet another attempt at their own app store, this time in conjunction with other carrier and hardware partners: quote: The Information claims that this new effort is a response to recent cutbacks from Google in revenue sharing with carriers and hardware makers for apps sold through the Google Play Store. Verizon would be stemming future losses with its own app store, as revenues from app store sales are expected to grow significantly over the next few years. The report says that Verizon would also use data like location, time of day, and social indicators to recommend apps to users.
Carrier app stores have long been clunky, horrid affairs with limited catalogs and difficult GUIs, and Verizon appears to have not learned any lessons from past failures on this front. It seems unlikely that partnering with similarly-innovation-challenged carriers is going to help. According to the report, the concept is only in its early stages, so Verizon may yet come to its senses before launch. |
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Wait a MinuteI already have to root my phone to get rid of the preinstalled junk from VZW... now they want a special store to shill crap from.
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