So its Happy Birthday to Apple and its App Store - 1 year old. It’s created a new industry and probably will change the way everyone digests content - now that everything has an app or a widget you dont need to browse for it.

Except for Search - Apple and the Apps store has changed how mobile phone manufacturers think about content with Nokia, RIM and Sony Ericsson all launched (or launching) app stores in the past 3 months.

So its not just the billions of downloads of apps for everything from the weather to ‘where am i right now’ or the ‘find my lost phone’, there are all the people making apps now.

And I can’t forget Android Market which and the HTC Android phones which launched latter than the iPhone / iPod touch, but that means todays Apple iPhone developers, Java developers, etc can now go and convert their apps to Android. And they already ARE.

Tags: Android, Apple, apps, digital, Mobile

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Damien Saunders
An experienced management consultant and business leader interested in digital transformation, product centred design and scaled agile. If I'm not writing about living with UCTD (an autoimmune disease), I'm probably listening to music, reading a book or learning more about wine.