15.02.2010 12:35 Uhr, Quelle: 9to5Mac

MWC Barcelona: Carriers anti-App Store plan may suffer 'death by committee', analysts warn

Attempts by the world’s leading mobile carriers to create their very own Apple-beating App Store are likely to suffer from ‘death by committee’, leading analysts suggest this morning.Responding to news that two dozen of the world’s largest mobile-phone companies, including Verizon Wireless, AT&T, NTT DoCoMo, Deutsche Telekom, China Mobile and Vodafone, are teaming up to create an “open international applications platform,” Informa Telecoms analyst, Mark Newman issued stark warning."I believe that the operators behind the inititiative are hoping to capture the mass market for mobile Internet services. Apple and RIM are already dominating the high end of the smartphone market but this only accounts for about one in five mobile users in Europe or North America. If operators can

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