Google to launch App Store for Business
Mashable are reporting that Google are set to launch an app store targeting business users at some point over the course of the next week, possibly as early as tomorrow. To my mind, this is a good move for Google. They need a strong catalogue of enterprise apps if they have any plans to make in-roads in tempting the corporate market.
The existing apps market receives a lot of criticism due to it being occasionally difficult to navigate. It’s also full of all sorts of nonsense apps such as soundboards and pornographic offerings. A cleaner, corporate version of the Apps Market, with the chaff filtered out, can only be a good thing. It’ll also benefit the developers as their apps are less likely to be lost amongst the pages and pages of fart apps and poker games. There is one potential drawback from a consumer point of view however: for developers, having your app surrounded by other professional offerings at a similar price, rather than untold numbers of home-brewed free apps, may just tempt some companies to increase the purchase price of their apps.
[...] According to Mashable, Google has been working on an app store for business users. The store would enable businessmen using Android handsets to quickly find apps they could use for work instead if having to navigate through soundboards and fart apps. Software providing things like word processing,, security and information porting would be some of the software offered to Google Apps customers. A Google spokesperson told Mashable, “We’re constantly working with our partners to deliver more solutions to business,but we have nothing to announce at this time.” The site said in its story that it is “fairly confident” that the store would be officially announced next week and could be introduced as soon as tomorrow. Now that Android has caught on strongly with the consumer and such handsets as the Motorola DROID and HTC’s Nexus One have established themselves as viable iPhone alternatives, Google’s next step is to get its open source OS into the boardrooms of corporations, a location where RIM’s BlackBerry handsets and Microsoft’s business solutions have traditionally been found. Can a green robot wear a pinstriped suit? We’re about to find out soon. source: Mashable via ThisAndroidLife [...]
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