Asrokhel Posted November 5, 2012 Share Posted November 5, 2012 Verizon will be closing its VCast app store in a couple of months. In a blog post to its developer community, the carrier said that it will be shutting it down as a result of a new strategy in order to ?simplify today?s experience and meet the needs of tomorrow?. With this closure, those with the Verizon App application on their mobile device will find it removed. The company will begin the process to remove its app from all compatible Android and Research in Motion devices and looks to have this complete by March 2013. If you had become accustomed to the apps available through the app store, then you?ll be happy to know that they are currently available in other stores, like Google Play, Amazon, and BlackBerry App World. The VCast app store was created back in March 2010 at a time when the carrier said app popularity surged. Back then, people didn?t really have that many opportunities to find apps that they liked and Verizon created it as a way to get their own proprietary apps out into the marketplace and compete with the Android marketplace, now called the Google Play store. With the wave of popularity for the Google Play store, Verizon?s VCast app store just couldn?t compete and now it?s going to be shuttered ? makes perfect sense because all the apps in the VCast store were already in the Google Play store, so Verizon is running an unneeded service. Starting this month, the carrier will notify its customers of the closure and says that all apps that require a monthly license check will no longer work once the VCast store is removed from the device, which includes all paid apps that uses the license or in-app SDKs. As March approaches, more features and functionality of the store will slowly disappear or cease to operate until it?s completely removed from all devices. http://thenextweb.com/mobile/2012/11/05/verizon-closes-app-store-january-2013/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Growled Member Posted November 6, 2012 Member Share Posted November 6, 2012 Sounds like a smart move on Verizon's part. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n_K Posted November 6, 2012 Share Posted November 6, 2012 "Starting this month, the carrier will notify its customers of the closure and says that all apps that require a monthly license check will no longer work once the VCast store is removed from the device, which includes all paid apps that uses the license or in-app SDKs" Hooray for DRM! Whilst all the pirates will continue using the cracked apps, once again it'll be the users that forked out money left in the dark... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aasum Posted November 6, 2012 Share Posted November 6, 2012 Were there any paid apps in said store and what are they doing if people actually paid for said apps? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moloko Posted November 6, 2012 Share Posted November 6, 2012 Good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neufuse Veteran Posted November 6, 2012 Veteran Share Posted November 6, 2012 there was no point anymore for a carrier ran app store when all the device os's have one already i remember when VCast came out, it was a piece of overpriced junk but it was still neat to have apps on "feature phones" then smartphones started getting bigger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buttus Posted November 6, 2012 Share Posted November 6, 2012 i never saw anything in there that wasn't in the play store. did i miss some stuff? (guess it doesn't matter now!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
remixedcat Posted November 6, 2012 Share Posted November 6, 2012 crappy nav apps that made you pay like a dollar per use or something or something like 10 dollars a month Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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