What are App shops all about?

 

The term App shop may be somewhat misleading at first. Due to the widespread popularity of the App Store, you might be forced to believe that the App shop is an alternative term for the App store, but in reality, this generic term is given to those stores, which feature useful applications for download and purchase.

These apps may be designed for iPhone 3G, Blackberry devices or they may not be even designed for cell phones at all. However, in common terms, the word app shop usually signifies 3rd party stores, which distribute either the Blackberry apps or the iPhone apps.

 

As the Blackberry App World was launched few days back, the popularity of the cell phone apps increased manifolds. On the other hand, Apple did not hold back, and one can see a new iPhone app surfacing up in the market.

What’s more, every passing minute people download these cell phone apps from such app shops, and on account of the same, several other vendors apart from the Apple Inc. and their official partners, have also generated handsome revenues.

 

Consequently, more number of vendors got encouraged to come up with such app shops, rendering the popular apps for the iPhone and Blackberry users. In fact, it’s a funny thing that one may find the apps of the arch rivals like Apple and Blackberry at the same place. They even compare the specs and features of apps on both platforms and reveal which one is superior in terms of functionality and pricing.

 

As a matter of fact, there are several apps like the Shazam, which are now made available on both iPhone as well as Blackberry devices, and it makes more sense to compare such apps in these app shops, which is otherwise impossible for the customers on their own. As a result, even the customers started liking such app shops, which provide something more than the App Store or what the Blackberry App World does.

 

Lastly, such app shops also provide the apps at lower costs, in case they’ve direct contact with the developers. The Apple Inc keeps 30% of the revenues, and provides 70% to the developer, for each download made from the App Store, while these app shops don’t mind offering up to 75% to the developers, so as to gain higher popularity.