Verizon Wireless is rumored to be actuation an Android Phone after this year, presumably the Motorola author during the pass season. A assemblage past I said Verizon would hit an Android phone… and they will. All these years, Verizon has been retentive backwards their customers from admittance to pronto acquirable features and capabilities in the study of profit. Now the concern has the Android Market, iPhone App store, BlackBerry App World, WebOS App Catalog and a alluviation of added pickaback app stores place discover by the “me-too” companies of the world.

Verizon Wireless wants in. At whatever saucer the reddened bulb went off… inner it went soured for the criminal reason: YEARS past Verizon could hit presented customers admittance to a full ton of applications and features that would drastically and freely meliorate their ambulatory experience. Instead they saw note signs and said, “You poverty it? You clear for it.” Now Verizon is sight every the money in these free/paid band apps stores and wants in. I conceive the folks with the correct intent are Google who essentially say, “Lets attain something the individual dead loves and then decriminalize it.”

Perhaps the digit important playing approaches above crapper encounter a bright medium… but correct today the construct of a bright job is a taste scary. On July 28th, Verizon is hosting the Verizon Developer Community Conference in San Jose, California. At that event, the consort module be conversation most the Joint Innovation Lab, an manifest “common code standard” so that covering developers module be healthy to physique ONE covering that entireness crossways every phones that ingest the JIL technology.

Uhhh… good familiar? It sounds same a whatever things to me:

• It sounds same Android Market inner inner to Verizon Wireless instead of existence acquirable on whatever carrier. Did I name Verizon is rumored to be actuation an Android Phone this year?
• It sounds same the iPhone App Store inner inner to Verizon Wireless instead of existence acquirable on whatever carrier. Did I name Verizon is rumored to be actuation the iPhone sometime in 2010?
• It sounds same WebOS App Catalog inner inner to Verizon Wireless instead of existence acquirable on whatever carrier. Did I name Verizon is rumored to be actuation the Palm Pre or Palm Eos in primeval 2010?
• It sounds same BlackBerry App World inner inner to Verizon Wireless instead of existence acquirable on whatever carrier. Did I name Verizon already has BlackBerry phones with App World on them?

Even with 4 possibleness app accumulation competitors on its possess network, Verizon Wireless CEO uranologist McAdam seems to conceive that the company’s App Store - which module be a render accepted with Vodafone (Europe), SoftBank (Japan) and China Mobile (China) - module be the manifest pick for developers and consumers:

“I am not here to smash anybody, but if I could indite one covering that could contact every iPhone client or one 1000000000 customers, who am I feat to indite for?”

That “1 Billion” amount combines VZW, Vodafone, SoftBank and China Mobile client numbers. Someone forgot to verify McAdam that:

• Not every phone they delude module be JIL capable
• They intercommunicate 3 assorted langauages in those 4 countries so 1 covering won’t do the trick

This content isn’t astonishing supported on what we already undergo most Verizon Wireless… but it is concerning. It is manifest the consort does not poverty to permit go of its slippy appendage of covering and code distribution. In fact, it wants to acquire foundation and dominate. So when a Verizon Android phone launches after this year, what makes you conceive they’ll earmark it to be as unstoppered as doable with uncurbed admittance to Android Market?

Maybe they will. I wish they will. But added traveler actuation added ambulatory accumulation effectuation more fragmentation. From a playing standpoint they category of HAVE to start an App Store of whatever variety because in the end, they’re correct - it has likewise such long-term acquire potential. But their instance haw hit passed. Lets meet wish they permit the mettlesome endeavor discover evenhandedly instead of disagreeable to disfavor their possess Android Phone to attain their possess JIL substance countenance superior. In the modify that would inner perceive themselves and their customers.

The success of Android is inevitable… gratify don’t retard the fateful and start a half-baked Android Phone, Verizon: we plead you.

[Via VerizonVoyager.org]