Mobile operators and manufacturers gang up on Apple and launch “Wholesale Applications Community”

Here’s one of those news items that make you want to simply stand up and shout – it’s about bloody time! The mobile companies, and that includes manufactures and even the carriers who have apparently also had enough, have decided to go ahead and start up an international applications platform. A total of two dozen of the biggest players in the game - Verizon Wireless, AT&T, NTT DoCoMo and Vodafone from the carriers camp and then there’s LG, Samsung and even Sony Ericsson from the manufacturers section that have joined up under this universal umbrella. The initiative is being called the “Wholesale Applications Community” and its aim is to make things real easy for the developers which of course then trickles down to us. Now the word is that this is all to prove that good old Steve Jobs isn’t the only one who rule the ‘App World’.