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Cricket’s MyHomeScreen shows the industry how to take on the Consumer Electronics and Operating System App Stores

In the article Reinventing the On Device Portal – The App Store, I reviewed how Apple’s implementation of its App Store on the iPhone provides a template for operators and how the struggling ODP (On Device Portal) can come into its own. I’ve reviewed the ODP landscape, its struggles and evolution in previous weblog articles.  […]

Apple App Store: Don’t Forget the iPod Touch is in the Numbers

On the 16th January Apple App Store achieved 500 million downloads, granted most of the downloads are for free applications.  But regardless this is a great achievement and a testament to focusing upon the needs of the customer and application developer.  The Apple App Store was not the first App Store, some of its predecessors […]

Re-inventing the On Device Portal – The App Store

The Apple App Store (AAS) recently achieved over 300M application downloads, the AAS web front page is shown below.  It provides a template for the telecom industry on how to work with developers and how to sell applications to customers, as discussed in the End of Year Review weblog article.  Granted it’s only for a […]