By Nik Ewing

Phone Applications

Competition

• Apple App Store• Google Android Market• BlackBerry App World• Nokia Download!/Ovi Store• Palm App Catalog/Software Store• Window’s Marketplace for Mobile

Apple App Store

• July 11, 2008 - App Store Launched• March 17, 2009 - App Store Downloads =

800,000,000• April 1, 2009 - Skype Application, 1

million downloads in 2 days+Controversy

Google Android Market

• August 28, 2008 - Android Market Launched

• Open Source - Shop Savvy• March 31, 2009 - Google pulled Wifi

Tether for Root Users

BlackBerry App World

• April 1, 2009 - App World Launched

• Nokia - “scraping the crumbs from Apple’s table”-TechRadar

• Palm App Catalog/Software Store - 5,000+ Applications

• Window’s Marketplace for Mobile - planned launch last quarter of 2009+ Windows Mobile 6.5 devices

Questions/Comments?Phone

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