Mobile Operators Fight App Store Fragmentation 178
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."
Re:Standards... anyone? Anyone? (Score:2, Informative)
an on screen touchscreen keypad is epic fail- I'd rather type on a 9 button pad than that.
First, I am really getting sick and tired of the overuse of the term "Epic fail." It is not an "Epic fail(ure)"; you just don't happen to enjoy it. Big difference.
Second, I don't think more than one user in 100,000 would "rather type on a 9 button pad" than a qwerty keyboard, even an onscreen one.