GigaOM reports the following:
…Verizon’s Ryan Hughes, VP Partner Management, said in an interview Friday that the network operator’s app store will be the sole marketplace on devices sold by the company, meaning stores such as Research In Motion’s BlackBerry App World or Microsoft’s Windows Mobile Marketplace won’t get placement on Verizon handsets unless a consumer downloads them.
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Even though the decision makes commercial sense on the end of Verizon, I think that they will not be able to pull this off as easy as intended: Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer has frequently stated that he considers Marketplace an “essential piece of Windows Mobile which HAS TO BE on every device”.
As manufacturers are not allowed to break Microsoft’s hardware guidelines, this fight could leave Verizon without WM 6.5 devices – let’s see how this all plays out…
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