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T-Mobile to Launch App Store?
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I really really don't understand what's so special about this. Carriers have had app stores for as long as I can remember, and they still do.
Verizon has Get it Now or whatever, cingular had the cingular mall where I dowloaded tetris and pacman to my razr...
What am I missing here?
Verizon has Get it Now or whatever, cingular had the cingular mall where I dowloaded tetris and pacman to my razr...
What am I missing here?
And add iPhone to your below list.
Why do you single out iPhone from other smartphone platforms?
Why do you single out iPhone from other smartphone platforms?
Learn ObjC/Cocoa, write for the many devices of OS X and make some money.
Oh I forgot, you've got that jaded signature holding you back.
wut u r missin iz dat tmobile wants 2b liek appel. and wanna b liek appel will make tmobile profitable again n make customer flock to tmobile sayn 'oh its just liek appel. lets sine ups!'
But that doesn't address the wide range of hardware out there. An app developed for Symbian that requires a touchscreen interface or an accelerometer or WiFi isn't going to be a potential sale to all Symbian-based phone owners. So even if T-Mobile has 100 million customers worldwide, you're still subdividing that number down by OS, hardware features, software features, and potentially country (given the legal issues that crop up with international sales.) Apple has potential customers all running hardware that can use all the apps as-is. Frankly, I see more potential in Apple's 10M subscribers than T-Mobile's 100M. (And as it has been mentioned already, iPod Touch owners are also part of the App Store party too so it's disingenuous to compare subscriber numbers.)
Actually, I do know objectiveC!
Unfortunately, even if I did write Apps for iPhone / Touch, I couldn't run them on my own device without:
- jail breaking
- paying Apple $99!
That seems so wrong. ( note: Any applications written aren't going to necessarily be for public consumption. )
By the way, my views / concerns aren't jaded, they are legitimate. If microsoft had a 'walled garden' and equal amount of control over its smartphone platform, there would be outrage.
Please check the facts again... the new 3G phone does have turn by turn GPS navigation. Just a note.
Ok, I've checked.
http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/14/apple-says-turn-by-turn-gps-coming-to-iphone-copy-paste-not-a/
If the iPhone has turn by turn GPS navigation, someone better tell Apple.
Have things changed in the 3 weeks since this was posted? Did I miss it?
How is this any different that an iPhone application that requires the GPS or 3G to function? The only reason the iPhone isn't hampered yet by multiple versions of the hardware is because it's still so new. I'm guessing the next iPhone will change the hardware to the point where there is fragmentation.
I agree. Why do someone need to pay $99 in order to write personal applications for their iPhone? What happens if I do write an application and it either isn't liked by apple ("I'm Rich!") or it competes with something they plan on selling soon? Whoops, I'm out of luck. Saying Apple knows best is akin to letting the government track you because obviously they know best.
There is more truth in your sig then I think people realize.
Wirelessly posted (iPhone: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 2_0_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.18.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.1 Mobile/5B108 Safari/525.20)
I think a lot if people are doing this. I sold our 2 edge iPhones on CR for $300 each and both people told me they were on T-Mobile.
nostaws said:wow
I am a tmobile customer using a samsung phone.
I wish I had an iphone
(thinking about buying and unlocking an edge iphone on craigslist)
I think a lot if people are doing this. I sold our 2 edge iPhones on CR for $300 each and both people told me they were on T-Mobile.
What?!!? I need a translator. How the hell do you get by in life writing in such a way?
wut u r missin iz dat tmobile wants 2b liek appel. and wanna b liek appel will make tmobile profitable again n make customer flock to tmobile sayn 'oh its just liek appel. lets sine ups!'
"What you are missing is that Tmobile wants to mimic apples popularity in order to become more profitable. They would also like to widely expand there customer base by releasing products that are drawing mass attention , thus placing them on an even plane with Apple, leading to customers thinking that there is no difference in the two companies"
How many people out there actually try to install an application or do things rather than making calls on their cellphones?
I think only those people with smartphones will do that. However, I wonder how many of those smartphones on the market are as user friendly as an iphone so that people will actually try to install more applications?
As a result, the number of customers for the T-mobile App-Store will be limited to only a small group of people. Adding together with the difficulty and cost of running such a service to support multiple OSs and hardwares, the result will be suicidal.
Hope that those guys at T-mobile really use their brain before taking any action.
Someone should write a "knock the wood" application for them to play on their phones before they launch their store.
I think only those people with smartphones will do that. However, I wonder how many of those smartphones on the market are as user friendly as an iphone so that people will actually try to install more applications?
As a result, the number of customers for the T-mobile App-Store will be limited to only a small group of people. Adding together with the difficulty and cost of running such a service to support multiple OSs and hardwares, the result will be suicidal.
Hope that those guys at T-mobile really use their brain before taking any action.
Someone should write a "knock the wood" application for them to play on their phones before they launch their store.
The hardware of iphone 3G has the capability of turn by turn GPS navigation. And function will be ready on 2.1 firmware update (which is believed to be coming real soon).
Online cell phone apps stores have been around for a lot longer than the Apple App Store!
( Personally, I downloaded my first app for cell phone, directly, and installed, back in 2004 ).
Here in Canada, Rogers and Fido have an App Store - and I'm sure Bell and Telus do too. You can download directly to your phone.
TMobile isn't copying Apple.
Agreed. Apple was also not the first to have an app store. Years ago with my Treo, I could go buy apps on the Sprint site to use on my Treo. I just never did because it was only a Treo.
The iPhone on the other hand made it fun and I check the store dailey for new apps I can spend my money on.
Like someone else in this thread said earlier, it'll probably be just a rebranding of their current "store"....which is a joke.
I'm a T-Mo customer currently and am looking forward to November when my contract ends and I jump to the iPhone.
I'm a T-Mo customer currently and am looking forward to November when my contract ends and I jump to the iPhone.
But it doesn't have it now. Today. This minute.
Thats what I was responding to. The person (popeye, I think) stated the iPhone had it now, but it does not. It has the potential with further modification (i.e. software).
I knew it was coming, and my original message stated that the iPhone did not have turn by turn GPS 'yet'.
I'm a Mac user but by no stretch an Apple "fanboy" (which is a term I suspect true fanboys throw around at other people, but I digress.) What annoys me about these kinds of things is competitors rushing in to ape Apple's approach and generally doing them in an uninspired, me-too kind of way and talking smack about Apple as if what Apple has done was so obvious and easy to do. Yeah, if that's the case, why didn't you do it before Apple?
Come on, you have to admit that it was one of the most unbelievable displays of corporate hubris that T-Mobile, Sprint, Verizon and hell, even AT&T, didn't come up with all these great ideas going on around the iPhone. They had so much time to beat Apple to the punch with the iPhone and the App Store and they sat back expecting that their little telecommunications fiefdoms would be safe for generations to come. And now they rush in to do these half-assed copies of what Apple is doing.
You really think people reacting to that is just a fanboy thing?
the year 2001 called, they want their mMode/t-zones/vision appstore press releases back.
wow, did tmobile dig this one up from years past? "App stores" have existed for years, usually in WAP form, but sometimes as a specific application.
wow, did tmobile dig this one up from years past? "App stores" have existed for years, usually in WAP form, but sometimes as a specific application.