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T-Mobile to create an App Store competitor?

by Josh Holat on Aug 13, 2008 at 06:06 AM

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With the recent news of the large quantities of money Apple has been making via their App Store (almost $1 million a day), T-Mobile wants in. With their 30+ million subscribers compared to the iPhone’s near 10 million, T-Mobile feels that their creation of an App Store-like platform could rake in some serious revenue. That is, as long as developers take advantage of it. They should probably act quickly, however, as the iPhone is rapidly gaining market share, and T-Mobile’s numbers have been growing more slowly every year.

T-Mobile will be calling this platform (which is currently in alpha) their devPartner Program. And they aren’t fooling around with this, either. “The devPartner Community site, which is in its alpha stage, is just a taste of what T-Mobile has in store, and we encourage you to stay tuned for more details in the coming weeks,” said Venetia Espinoza, T-Mobile’s director of Mobile Applications and Partner Programs.

This is going to get interesting.

Via [iPod Observer]

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