Comments on: AT&T Purchases Plusmo (Oh Noes!)

By: Rick Foulkes

Rick Foulkes — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 12:51:56 +0000

Hey makes developing novel and useful apps even more exciting! There are no free lunches just peanutbutter and jelly on white and mozarella tomato fresh basil basalmic/olive oil on Foccacia bread. If its really useful and runs well it is worth paying for..even if you have an annoying add to get past. I hope we have a lot of exclusive apps as long as they don’t come with a monthly fee. AT&T can’t wait to tag you an addition 5 to 10 bucks a month for apps. I was paying for Family Map until Google offered us Latitude which is faster, cooler and…free! Sort of like location facebook!
Still the Beer App made some loser college kid a millionaire at a 4.99 a download!! Go figure!

By: Dave Kaufman - Techlife

Dave Kaufman - Techlife — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:57:09 +0000

@stormrider81 – seconded. Sports Tap is handsdown the best sports app on Android. Better than Google’s own resource and bandwidth hog.

Sports Tap does it right.

By: Omar

Omar — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 10:59:07 +0000

My understanding is these are simple widgets (easy enough to write using android API) consuming webservices (An open standard) to show you information.

Any android developer worth his salt could write this in an evening…

Why worry.

By: Justa Notherguy

Justa Notherguy — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 06:20:15 +0000

I’ve been waiting for this. I think it marks the beginning of what could turn out to be a major trend: cell phone carriers (that’s ‘mobile operators’, to you Europeans) buying or building in-house dev teams, with the goal of producing ‘exclusive’ apps. Or maybe apps with exclusive features.

Think of it – what a great way to differentiate your programs and your phones? And this is especially valuable for marketing in Europe & Asia, where the ‘mobile lifestyle’ conceit (phone as personality extension, style indicator and/or fashion accessory) is presumed to be the #1 issue for customers.

Of course, I suspect any such exclusivity would likely be only temporary; their own customers get the apps first, with multi-platform rollout following a few weeks or months, later. But either way, Latest!/Greatest!/Exclusive! makes for a great selling-point…at least, I’d bet the suits see it that way.

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:15:02 +0000

That gives me as an app developer some hope:). Anyone wanna buy fartdroid :)

By: Kyanro

Kyanro — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:04:46 +0000

though it may suck for many people, it also gives hope to the many others (including me) that are waiting for an android phone to show up on the AT&T network. It finally might be happening.

By: stormrider81

stormrider81 — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 23:18:33 +0000

sucks for the ppl still using those apps…as for me i think sports tap is a better app