T- Mobile Plans

T-Mobile Plans Ap Store

Posted by Sam Churchill on August 8th, 2008

Moco News says, starting this fall, T-Mobile USA will ditch its traditional deck on the phone and replacing it with a platform that’s open to almost any developer, not unlike Apple’s App store.

As one developer, who was briefed on the matter, said: “The App store was a big deal, but that’s one phone. This is an entire carrier.”

In other words, we are talking about T-Mobile’s 31.5 million subscribers today vs. the 10 million iPhones Apple expects to sell by year-end. The impact of this move by T-Mobile could set off a wave of changes in the industry, as other carriers feel pressure to offer new applications on their networks. We are waiting for a statement from T-Mobile and will update when we have it.

Here’s the details: Developers will submit their applications online; the revenue-share agreement will be based on how much the application uses the network; and the applications will be presented to the user in order of popularity, not according to T-Mobile’s preferences.

It’s all pretty straightforward, but the more interesting aspect is that this will apply to all the carrier’s platforms from upcoming Android to Java to Sidekick and Windows Mobile.

source : dailywireless.org