
Mobile World Congress 2010
Two industry moves in particular shed more light on the battle for applications business. The world’s 24 largest operators launched an open, international applications platform on the first day of the MWC, called the Wholesale Applications Community. It is a clear attempt to fight against platform fragmentation and make application developers a little happier.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8515813.stm
Also, Ericsson launched its own application web store, the eStore This open marketplace is directly aimed at operators, and 30,000 applications for all mobile operating systems are currently available.
http://estore.ericsson.com/