Sep 18, 2012
Salah satu pionir toko aplikasi untuk gadget, mobihand, baru baru ini memutuskan untuk menutup bisnisnya. Saya ingat dulu pertama kali beli aplikasi untuk palm, windows mobile, blackberry, android di situs ini. Dua tahun terakhir saya juga jadi mitra mobihand untuk menjual themes blackberry dengan nama patriaguides. selain menjual aplikasi, situs ini juga menjual gimmick gadget yang lain seperti accesories untuk gadget akan tetapi tetap porsi terbesar pemasukannya adalah dari aplikasi mobile device terutama untuk sakarang ini blackberry dan android.
Dunia bisnis memang kejam, dan sepertinya pangsa pasar mobihand ini tergerus dengan hadirnya toko aplikasi native dari penyedia OS seperti blackberry appworld dan PlayStore sehingga developer lebih memilih untuk menjual di native store ini karena skema pendapatannya lebih baik dan juga customer bisa langsung mengakses toko native ini. Berikut adalah pengumuman yang dibuat mobihand untuk pelanggannya dan vendornya tentang penutupan bisnisnya
What a fabulous ride we had!
From San Francisco to Indonesia, from Brazil to Moscow, for eight years we served millions of worldwide customers with their app needs and delivered hundreds of millions of downloads.
We enjoyed the rise of many different platforms. BlackBerry and then Android were the biggest. And we suffered through the fall of others. Goodbye Palm and maybe BlackBerry?
Remember when we downloaded apps onto a PC and then sideloaded them through a cable to our phones? Today, our apps are discovered, downloaded and updated with very little effort right onto our devices (phones and tablets that we could not have imagined when we started). We are proud to have pioneered many of the innovations that all mobile users enjoy today.
We lived through all of these changes, including the entry of some very large companies into the app industry. These companies changed the industry with their massive resources and easy access to existing customers (which some of them vigorously protect by closing their app systems).
Domination of mobile app distribution by a relatively small number of large companies has made participation increasingly difficult for independent app distributors. While it was very hard to reach this decision, we have concluded that we have to discontinue our current services. We can only hope that the assets we built over the years will find a new purpose.
Thank you for the opportunity to serve you over all these years.
The MobiHand Team
P.S. Customer accounts will be accessible for a few more days. Customers will be able to re-download purchased apps or get their activation codes, but no upgrades, new codes, or swaps will be available.
So bye mobihand, it was nice to do business with you
