App Stores: Microsoft, Google Follow Apple (NewsFactor via Yahoo! News)

5 September 2008, 1:06 pm

When Apple opened its iTunes App Store in July, the idea of a mass-market Web site that sells downloadable games, tools, and other applications for cell phones was a rarity. Handset owners could buy apps from their carriers or the occasional niche site. But these days, the app store concept is becoming commonplace. The question is, does the world need a warren of wireless app stores?... read more

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