Shout About Mobiles

After seeing how well apple are doing with the ‘app store’, RIM have decided to do the same for their Blackberry’s and are releasing ‘app world’. There have been a few concerns about this as RIM has set limits on pricing and have formed them into four categories, so the lowest price a piece of software can be, will be around $3′s.

No sooner have RIM released (had their information leaked) this information, Acer have come out of the woodwork and announced that they are trying to develop their application store for Windows Mobile devices.

Now we have to wonder, are application stores the way forward or not?

They do have some amazing “plus points”: they give phone users a vast variety of applications to use, and even allows phone users to see what their mates are using and go get it themselves (if they want it)!

But will this exclusivity to a brand stop the small developers and new developers in from making cool pieces of third party software?

I hope not!

If phone users are wanting to try something different (price wise) to the application stores, then these “little developers” need to keep the new ideas flowing – we all know that the best ideas are not always made by the big names.