Included among those launch partners was Acer. At the time of its launch at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Intel announced several partnerships with other PC makers to bring the AppUp store to consumers.

Interestingly enough, AppUp is meant to be a white-label offering that PC manufacturers can customize to their own needs. Earlier this month, chip maker Intel launched the AppUp site, an application store designed specifically for netbook computers. However, the company wouldn’t share pricing details or name developers, noted the Bloomberg story.Īlthough application stores are typically associated with mobile phones, Acer wouldn’t be the first vendor to launch an applications store designed for use on PCs. One of those opportunities is the new Acer application store, an online venture that will offer hundreds of different applications, both free and paid. Want even admits this is the case: “We’d like to proactively purse any opportunity,” he said. From what it sounds like, Acer is glomming onto every major tech trend with plans that include everything from an e-reader to a Tablet PC. The Acer App StoreĪcer, currently the world’s second-largest computer vendor, mentioned the application store among a series of initiatives designed to boost the company’s profitability, according to a report on. Although no exact time frame was given, the Chrome apps are likely to appear by the third or fourth quarter of 2010 to coincide with the debut of Acer’s line of Chrome OS netbooks, a group that will account for 10% of Acer’s ultra-portable PCs. The new store will launch mid-year for the first three platforms listed, with apps for Chrome set to launch later on. PC manufacturer Acer has just announced plans to launch its own application store designed for all the operating systems is supports, including Microsoft Windows, Windows Mobile, Google’s Android platform and Google Chrome. Have we reached app store saturation yet? Apparently not.

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