Blandt de 24 mobiltelefonoperatører er: AT&T, China Mobile, China Unicom, Deutsche Telekom, NTT DoCoMo, Orange, TeliaSonera, Sprint, Verizon Wirelessog Vodafone og de 3 hardwareproducenter er: LG, Sony Ericsson si Samsung. Som du kan se, blev der dannet en alliance, der samler de største og mest magtfulde virksomheder fra hele verden for at kæmpe med 3 giganter Apple, Google si Brombær.
Fællesskabet vil tilbyde udviklere muligheden for at lave applikationer, der vil være kompatible på et meget varieret udvalg af operativsystemer beregnet til mobile terminaler, hvilket i sidste ende vil føre: først og fremmest til tilfredshed for udviklere, der ikke længere behøver at vælge enten en lejr til at lave applikationer eller at lave parallelle applikationer til forskellige operativsystemer; og for det andet vil det give de knap 3 milliarder kunder i alliancens medlemsvirksomheder mulighed for at vælge mellem et ekstremt varieret udvalg af applikationer til deres terminal.
For at være ærlig er det på den ene side en meget god idé, fordi det vil skabe en kæmpe konkurrence for dem fra Apple, Google, Nokia si BlackBerry men på den anden side kunne det skabe et monopol til fordel W.A.C. i betragtning af, at denne alliance samler et imponerende antal ekstremt stærke virksomheder.
Nedenfor er hele pressemeddelelsen.
Wholesale Applications Community to push apps market to over 3 billion customers with strong support by world-leading device manufacturers
BARCELONA, Spain–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Twenty-four leading telecommunications operators have formed the Wholesale Applications Community, an alliance to build an open platform that delivers applications to all mobile phone users.
“The GSMA is fully supportive the Wholesale Applications Community, which will build a new, open ecosystem to spur the creation of applications that can be used regardless of device, operating system or operator”
América Móvil, AT&T, Bharti Airtel, China Mobile, China Unicom, Deutsche Telekom, KT, mobilkom austria group, MTN Group, NTT DoCoMo, Orange, Orascom Telecom, Softbank Mobile, Telecom Italia, Telefónica, Telenor Group, TeliaSonera, SingTel, SK Telecom, Sprint, Verizon Wireless, VimpelCom, Vodafone and Wind are committed to create an ecosystem for the development and distribution of mobile and internet applications irrespective of device or technology.
Together, these operators have access to over three billion customers around the world. The GSMA and three of the world’s largest device manufacturers – LG Electronics, Samsung and Sony Ericsson – also support this initiative.
Wholesale Applications Community har til formål at forene en fragmenteret markedsplads og skabe en åben industriplatform, der kommer alle til gode – fra applikationsudviklere og netværksoperatører til mobiltelefonbrugere selv.
The alliance’s stated goal is to create a wholesale applications ecosystem that – from day one – will establish a simple route to market for developers to deliver the latest innovative applications and services to the widest possible base of customers around the world. In the immediate future the alliance will seek to unite members’ developer communities and create a single, harmonised point of entry to make it easy for developers to join.
“The GSMA is fully supportive the Wholesale Applications Community, which will build a new, open ecosystem to spur the creation of applications that can be used regardless of device, operating system or operator,” said Rob Conway, CEO and Member of the Board, GSMA. “This approach is completely in line with the principles of the GSMA, and in fact leverages the work we have already undertaken on open network APIs (OneAPI). This is tremendously exciting news for our industry and will serve to catalyse the development of a range of innovative cross-device, cross-operator applications.”
Jonathan Arber, Senior Research Analyst at independent analyst house, IDC, said: “Attracting and retaining developers is vital for any application store offering to succeed. However, mobile application developers currently face a high level of fragmentation in the industry, in terms of both technology platforms, and individual operators’ working practices. Developers want to meet the largest possible addressable market, as efficiently and painlessly as possible, and the Wholesale Applications Community initiative can meet these criteria by providing a simple, single point of access to a large number of operator storefronts. The initiative should also help to drive uptake of existing, open standards among developers, operators and manufacturers, thereby reducing fragmentation and benefiting the whole industry.”
The alliance plans to initially use both the JIL and OMTP BONDI requirements, evolving these standards into a common standard within the next 12 months. Ultimately, we will collectively work with the W3C for a common standard based on our converged solution to truly ensure developers can create applications that port across mobile device platforms, and in the future between fixed and mobile devices.
The alliance will serve as one point of contact for the industry and is open to all relevant parties – from telecommunications operators and device manufacturers to internet service providers and application software developers. For more information go to www.wholesaleappcommunity.com or email info@wholesaleappcommunity.com.
via Engadget.