Similar services for other devices

Following the popularity of the App Store, competitors developed their own software stores. Palm Inc. has published an application store very similar to the App Store for Palm devices[51] and announced the App Catalog for webOS on the Palm Pre that was released on June 6, 2009. Another platform, Android Market is used in conjunction with OHA's Android operating system. Microsoft has announced Windows Marketplace for Mobile, an application store for their Windows Mobile platform.[52] Nokia has released The "Ovi Store"[53] for its S60 and S40 based mobile devices. RIM also launched its application store BlackBerry App World.[54] The Nintendo DSi is able to connect to an online store called the DSi Shop.