August 8, 2008

The Clone Store

From AppleInsider:

Rather than offer the usual app deck, which often varies by the phone operating system (as with Apple’s solution) and even from device to device, T-Mobile would reportedly offer a store that covers all its devices, from simple phones that only support Java apps to smartphone-level operating systems such as Google Android and Windows Mobile.

So T-Mobile is doing a carrier-wide, phone-agnostic app store.  I won’t rag on them for being followers; the idea is a good one.  But why didn’t anyone think to do this before Apple got into the game?