A very small
curated app market with apps that don't compete with your core business would be the right move for the big 4.
Their own
curated app markets do not let you download reading apps from their competition.
Not exact matches
Each year, Spira and her team
curate a list of the latest and greatest mobile dating
apps on the
market.
Instead, there's the
curated market, which will launch with 1,500
apps designed to work on a 7 - inch screen.
Both services already have
apps available via the Android
Market, but it's not clear whether they've been optimized for the Fire in any way, or whether it's simply an introduction to Amazon's
curated Appstore.
To be clear, this is not a truly open
app store along the lines of the Android
Market but one
curated by Barnes & Noble.
First leaked in September, Amazon's Android
app store will be a curated market, meaning Amazon reviewers will determine which apps are allowed inside, similar to Apple's iTunes App Sto
app store will be a
curated market, meaning Amazon reviewers will determine which
apps are allowed inside, similar to Apple's iTunes
App Sto
App Store.
A blog / site called Asymco that calls itself «
Curated Market Intelligence» exhibits its special brand of intelligence with a claim that «
Apps are 15 times more popular than ebooks».
The interface looks to be a heavily modified version of Gingerbread, much like both Kindle Fire and Nook Color, and it's taken a similar
app route as well — rather than full access to the Android
Market, Kobo has
curated 15,000 free
apps that you can download to the device.
First, unlike ebook
markets such as Amazon and Barnes & Noble, where authors and publishers basically decide what gets sold in the store, certain mobile application marketplaces (notably, the Apple
App Store) use what could be called a
curated model.
When it comes to shopping for more
apps, the selection is more limited than what you'll find on the Android
Market; the B&N
App Store could be described as a
curated experience instead of a free - for - all.
Much like the Play Store's old «Designed for tablets» section, an
app called Tablified
Market maintains a
curated list of tablet - optimized
apps, which you can browse and search to your heart's content.
Hulcher said that by partnering with telecom carriers in these
markets, Spire is able to build a massive network of users who will gain instantaneous access to Spire's digital currency wallet,
curated DApp marketplace and all of the
apps that are produced through 3rd party developers.