Karthik R 246 Report post Posted March 8, 2011 Opera has announced that it has now opened its very own Opera Mobile Store – offering both free and paid-for apps. The store will offer apps for phones with Java, as well as handset with Symbian, BlackBerry and Android OS. The store has been set up in partnership with Appia, and the storefront is apparently tailored around your phone's operating system, local language and currency. "The launch of the Opera Mobile Store supports Opera's core belief in an open, cross-platform mobile Internet experience by providing Opera users with an integrated storefront of mobile applications," said Mahi de Silva, Opera's EVP for consumer mobile. "Our partnership with Appia delivers to all Opera Mobile and Opera Mini users easy access to a wide variety of great content, on any device, all over the world." This web app store is open for access on all browsers however Opera browsers will include a featured link for the application store, making it easily accessible to all Opera Mini and Mobile users. The number of apps available will vary according to the end device with the store only presenting apps that work on that phone. Users will get a tailored store experience that includes local language and currency support too. By leveraging Appia, Opera will have the ability to offer some 140,000 Appia apps on various platforms and will be able to boast its own store with minimal effort. Opera Mobile Store was operating in stealth mode during February. It managed to attract over 15 million users from 200 countries and achieved more than 700,000 downloads per day! These figures have helped to establish the Opera Mobile Store as one of the Top Ten mobile apps store worldwide. Oh, and if you’re a developer you should visit the Opera Publisher Portal here which provides developers with an easy way to get their apps onto the Opera Mobile Store Via : Techradar, gigaom The store is now open and available at http://mobilestore.opera.com/ Opera is clearly angling to get a piece of the pie by extending beyond just providing a mobile browser to being a purveyor of content 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Honest 836 Report post Posted March 9, 2011 Thanks for the useful info dear Karthik....+1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
digitalnirvana 646 Report post Posted March 9, 2011 Good info however why any third party app market would work, when all OSes have built in app markets with great app collections (market in android, app store in iOS etc.), sure some third party markets like appbrain work but they provide additional features e.g. installing app on PC and syncing to phone. Why would someone just want a customized app for a separate app store confuses me, just like notion ink adam uses genesys app store instead of normal market (though in all fairness the adam runs 2.2+ and market for only tabs is not available till 3.0, the galaxy tab has a phone chip specifically to have market). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
raccoon 53 Report post Posted March 9, 2011 Hope you know that the Android Market now installs and even syncs to you phone like Appbrain. Appbrain does have few additional features though. However, I uninstalled the Appbrain app because it loads at startup and sits there occupying RAM permanently for no good reason, even if you deselect the updating. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Karthik R 246 Report post Posted March 10, 2011 Native mobile app store GetJar today removed Opera Mini from its shelf. It had been one of the most popular application downloaded from GetJar. GetJar responded to a tweet asking why: “[Opera] placed an app store in their browser. One thing we can’t do is promote competing app stores.” Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
raccoon 53 Report post Posted March 10, 2011 Lol, are they nuts? Users will just go elsewhere to get Opera and Getjar will loose a lot of traffic. Or so I think. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
