Is there anything about the iPhone that other companies won’t copy? Touch screens, big, fat, easy to use icons and now App Stores. Yesterday we saw paid applications available on the G1 Googlephone for the first time, and today it’s the turn of Windows Mobile, the boring, crimplene leisure-suit wearing uncle of the mobile OS world.
The store is actually a free application from the online marketplace PocketGear. In fact, it really is just a mobile version of PocketGear that delivers apps directly to the phone. Previously you’d have to take part in a rather clunky process to get new apps onto your device, even choosing a delivery method: SMS, email or download to a real PC and sync.
Because of its existing lineup of software, the App Store (where did they get that name?) launches with over 2,500 titles. Not bad, and if it works smoothly enough (taking care of billing as seamlessly as iTunes, for example) then it will be a welcome service for the poor WinMo owners out there. It’s just a shame the PocketGear didn’t think of it by itself.
Product page [PocketGear. Thanks, Jud!]
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