GigaOM reports the following:
…Verizon’s Ryan Hughes, VP Partner Management, said in an interview Friday that the network operator’s app store will be the sole marketplace on devices sold by the company, meaning stores such as Research In Motion’s BlackBerry App World or Microsoft’s Windows Mobile Marketplace won’t get placement on Verizon handsets unless a consumer downloads them.
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While Microsoft is likely to hinder these efforts by Verizon (stay tuned – information on that coming soon), RIM is rather unlikely to stand up against VZ – they are, after all, one of their biggest customers.
What do you think?
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