So, now is about the App Stores

Recently. I saw an article in Read Write Web, were they talked about the upcoming app store for Evernote, called Evernote Trunk. This got me thinking that in the past months, I’ve seen some companies launching app stores. For example, Foursquare has one, Samsung did it for it smart phones, even uTorrent the bitTorrent program has one. You may think this just a buzz word and people are just ridding it, however there is more than just following the success of Apple and facebook (which was the first to have the concept of third party apps, even before Apple.)

Pondering about this topic, I remembered a kind of lecture/conversation, I had not so long ago with an experienced entrepreneur. He told me that having a service is good for starts, but were you want to end up is having a platform, because it gives you a better chance to grow. Facebook is social platform that connects with Internet, Foursquare is a platform for connecting your Web life with the “Real” life and Evernote it becomes a extension of your memory.

Doesn’t matter if they call them plug-ins, widgets, extensions or apps, as we can see with companies like Apple, facebook and others: once you become the base of the pyramid and others depend on you for their business, “you struck gold”.