Nokia announces app store too

By Aditya Mhatre at 16 February, 2009, 12:44 am

After Apple’s App Store success, Google decided to start an a market place for Mobile applications for Android and given the fact that Microsoft has been doing exactly what Google has, it announced SkyMarket to sell mobile applications for Windows Mobile. And today, guess you decided to join the party. Nokia announced that it would be starting an application store next week and is hoping to cash in on the Mobile Application gold rush.

In early December, Nokia had promised to launch its download store which was seen as a mere threat to Apple’s App store but I guess they were serious. Nokia will be merging its current software download store with free media sharing site (weirdly) named Mosh and a widget service (equally weirdly named) WidSets.

The key here will be the ease of downloading and installing the application from a users point of view and from a developers POV, its will be how open will Nokia be towards accepting/rejecting applications and the brokerage fees that Nokia will charge. We know that apple got some serious bad press for their under handed nature in rejecting applications to protect its interest and also the fact that Apple charges the developers a 30% cut. If nokia gets the mobile app store right, it would be a massive success given the number of cell phones its sells.

And let me not forget to tell you that RIM (makers of blackberry) are set to launch an online mobile App store in march 2009 which is fast approaching.

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