Find Applications with the App shop
There are several app shops available, which allow you to customize the iPhone apps by quickly finding and comparing applications at a common place.
The OpenPeak App shop happens to be one such marketplace. At such places, the registered third party developers as well as the service providers can easily distribute the apps and receive payments in turn. Moreover, the service providers also exercise complete control over the apps that are made available to the customers within such an App shop.
Usually, at such apps shops, all the applications are featured with a short description, a preview screen, and star ratings to showcase their level of popularity. One may optionally read the detailed description, and preview the apps, before adding them to the shopping cart.
Those who happen to be existing customers, may rate the products they’ve purchased in past, and also leave feedbacks, so that the other customers may look at their views and opinions, before downloading a particular app from the app shop.
When you compare such app shops with the official App Store, the third party applications in the App Store obviously have a wider range including applications from entertainment to education, business to game and many others in free and sale sections. Moreover, the App Store also renders constant updates, which may not be the case with these app shops. As mentioned previously, from July 11, 2008, users were able to buy applications from App Store and transfer them to their iPod Touch or iPhone with the updated 2.0 versions.
Again, as per the facts and figures, till the first weekend more than the download of applications witnessed a huge number of more than 10 million, and it was on January 16, 2009, when it was officially announced by Apple that 500 million applications download had been already achieved. Apple is looking forward to 1billion app downloads within this year, and running attractive offers for promoting the App store, while the other app shops always have discounts and other attractive deals to catch the eyes of the customers as well.
Competing with App Store is surely next to impossible, but these app shops smartly combine the advantages of the App Store, Blackberry App world as well as exciting offers, to drive the customers in these stores.