Acer thinking about an App Store, maybe an App Boutique?

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Saturday, March 7th, 2009

Acer, a company whose proud tradition of smartphone engineering has wrought nothing you can particularly remember right now, is planning its own App Store, an odd prospect considering most of its smartphones run Windows Mobile.

Mobile-ent writes:

At a London press event yesterday, Acer’s senior corporate VP and smart handheld president Aymar de Lencquesaing told ME that Acer is examining the viability of an app store, which would be accessible from its new devices.

You can bank on that, friends.

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