The Symbian Foundation has opened its application warehouse this week, which it says will be "unique".
The Foundation is taking a new approach to distribution by supplying multiple stores run by anyone who wants to make an attempt. It will offer standard APIs with which third parties can interact to run their own stores containing a subset of what's available.
In terms of signing applications (often a thorny issue) The Symbian Foundation will license third-parties to sign applications and will then run a repository containing the apps which will not be available to the general public and will not make money.
Individual application stores will then select the apps they want to list and create a front end and payment system for those apps, plus links to the repository for downloading.
In its announcement earlier this week, Symbian said: “The website will include a full developer offering which includes platform release information, council charters, wikis, forums as well as access to the SDK, code repository, tools, documentation, wiki, bugtracker and forums.
The foundation continues to receive encouraging support from companies across the industry. Since the membership programme first opened in February, 81 companies have applied for membership and are either going through the formal process or have become members, 50 of which are first time endorsers.”
