The Apple iTunes App Store is the dominant smartphone application store for many reasons. One often overlooked reason is the fact that Apple launched the store with a consumer base in the millions : iPod users!
Apple has a lot of good things going for itself these days, and the success of the iPhone and the App Store is still astounding to me. More astounding, though, is the fact that no company (or companies) have been able to offer up a real alternative to that combo.
RIM, Nokia, HTC and others do [...]
