T-Mobile AppStore details

T-Mobile AppStore details. According to Boy Genius, T-Mobile may offer its own mobile-accessible application store in line with Apple’s App Store. T-Mobile’s Director of Product Development for Mobile Apps and Partner Programs (Venetia Espinoza), and their Product Marketing Manager of the devPartner program (Sue Schmitz) were interviewed at CTIA. Here are some of the points of the interview:

+ The initial offering will allow free and pay apps, but nothing containing advertising.
+ No Android will be allowed, and no Sidekick apps either.
+ The developer agreement will be live on T-Mobile’s site next week.
+ Revenue split starts at 50/50 with changing factors that can give 70% for the developer.
+ T-Mobile will provide demo handsets and a virtual lab to help out developers.
+ Free apps will be allowed at no cost to developers, however bandwidth will be capped.
+ There will not be an API available from day one, but it is a consideration for the future.

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