Communiqué PR has a number of mobile industry clients so we thought it would be interesting to provide insight on a blog about smartphone app stores.
Gizmodo, Gawker Media’s largest blog focusing on gadgets and technology, recently published a post comparing mobile application stores from companies including Apple, Palm, Blackberry, Nokia and Microsoft.
While many of the features are similar, blogger John Herrman, notes there are two distinct kinds of app stores: the primary store, which is the first and only source of an operating system’s apps (e.g. Apple), and the secondary store, which is built around an existing stock of third-party apps (e.g. Blackberry, Microsoft and Nokia).
There has been a lot of attention focused on mobile application stores recently as traditional players such as Palm, BlackBerry, Nokia and Microsoft have begun offering similar versions of Apple’s popular app store. While all of these stores have similar features for both consumers and app developers, the comparison of each of these stores is interesting to note. We anticipate many consumers will base their future mobile phone purchasing decisions on the features and functionalities of the device’s app store.
Read the blog post entitled, “Giz Explains: All the Smartphone Mobile App Stores,” to learn more.