Sony Ericsson to support app shops
The concept of app shop has become extremely popular, and even Sony Ericsson has decided to support the developers and expand their business strategies with the official Application Shop, which will serve as a marketplace, where developers may sell their Symbian OS apps for Sony Ericsson mobiles.
In the year 2006, Sony Ericsson had come up with this idea for the first time, but now it’s time for the launch of the third generation app shop, which will even allow the innovative app designers to propose ideas for development of some wonderful cell phone apps, which they may not be able to accomplish on their own.
As a result, Sony-Ericsson has announced that they’ll support such developers in developing exceptional apps for Sony-Ericsson mobiles, and market them with full personal credits, as well as a good share of profit.
Already there are countless app shops operating over the web, which allow the developers to market their 3rd party cell phone apps, but Sony-Ericsson has come up with a better idea of even funding those who can’t manage entire development on their own.
Moreover, the company feels that some of the faithful mobile users of their brand, may come up with extremely useful and innovative ideas, which may lead to design of some killer mobile apps never seen or heard of, in past. Therefore, it is a good idea to support those who can provide vital ideas to help the company improve the quality of their cell phone apps.
Few months back, the company had run a two-month contest, to accomplish similar task, and now they’re coming up with yet another plan to support the app shops as well as the innovative thinkers, and developers.
Lastly, Sony-Ericsson collaboration also plans on conducting workshops to help the developer community, and provide them with the necessary knowledge to turn their ideas into reality. Sony-Ericsson looks extremely interested in taking their quality of mobile apps to the next level, though the question that still remains unanswered is whether they’d ever manage to compete with Apple and Blackberry apps. And if yes, how long it would really take to achieve a feat like 1billion cell phone app downloads for the Sony-Ericsson mobiles, in the upcoming times.
So, let’s wait and watch the strategies and implementation of the Sony-Ericsson tie-up, to challenge the likes of Blackberry and Apple Inc.