World’s one of the most prominent groups in Wireless technology has today announced its intention to go for an ‘open application store’ which can be capable vend applications to all mobile phone users.
The ‘Wholesale Applications Community’ as it had been named, comprises of 24 of the biggest mobile network operators including China Mobile, Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone, NTT DoCoMo, Telefonica, SK Telecom, Sprint, AT&T, Verizon Wireless, and hardware manufacturers LG, Samsung, and Sony Ericsson.
The major target for the companies is to make things easy for publishers by providing them the largest range of both users and devices. A goal that others are trying to reach, the decade old principle of WORA (Write once Run Anywhere).
Instead of devising new standards for developers to be able to write once and run anywhere, the WAC today said it will utilize mobile widget language JIL (Joint Innovation Lab) which is currently in beta and application runtime OMTP BONDI which is in ver 1.1 to reach that goal.
This definitely seems to be one of the best kinds of group formed. Experts believe that it will be profitable for both network providers and the hardware companies.