T-Mobile Application Store
Following on from my post yesterday on operator slowness to market, there’s news that T-Mobile are, in fact, creating an application store that will allow third party applications to be easily provisioned.
The strange bit is…
"the exact details of the revenue share depend on the intensity of the app’s data consumption. The more bits an app gobbles up, the more money T-Mobile will take"
I say it’s strange because I can’t think how T-Mobile will monitor application data consumption on a per-app basis - unless they insist on the app sending specific http user agent headers - but that of course assumes the application uses http as opposed to raw IP on the same or other ports.
Maybe it will rely on some ’start’ and ‘end’ of data protocol telling T-Mobile when an app is starting and ending use of data. But this seems very messy and unworkable to me. It would require people to change their app just so it can work on T-Mobile.
Also, how will this model apply to free applications? It won’t necessarily encourage them to also conserve their data usage.
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