China Mobile planning applications storefront

China Mobile announced plans to launch a mobile applications storefront to rival Apple's App Store and Google's Android Market. "We will set up our own shop, and we hope, welcome all content providers to sell their software applications and games and songs and any other products in our application shop," said China Mobile chairman and CEO Wang Jianzhou during an appearance at the GSMA Mobile Asia Congress in Macau, China.

Such a venture promises an unprecedented windfall for mobile software developers: China Mobile is the world's largest mobile operator in terms of subscribers, boasting a customer base in excess of 436 million--more than the total U.S. population. Moreover, China Mobile sells handsets from most major manufacturers, effectively guaranteeing its applications storefront will support multiple operating systems.

For more on the China Mobile app storefront:
- read this Computerworld article

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