With the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) now passed, we saw yet another wave of new app store announcements. Following in the footsteps of Apple, these app stores provide developers relatively easily to build and distribute apps while also giving them an opportunity to monetize on them. To the end-user they are giving them an endless list of of applications and things to do on their devices.
It ‘s great to see that with this wave of app-stores the focus was not just smartphones but much wider. One which caught our attention was an announcement from Samsung:

Samsung introduced Samsung Apps as the platform to download and use apps across all Samsung devices such as HDTVs, phones, blu-ray devices, cameras, printers etc. So imagine using some of the apps that you’ve come to love on your iPhone directly on your HDTV while watching TV!
Although the concept of an internet-connected TV (or any of the above devices) is not new at all, empowering developers to build and distribute to these broad range of devices is truly innovative and I am sure we will see many interesting applications that will captivate end-users.
This is particularly interesting to us at Plastic as we will be able to help our clients expand their applications beyond mobile devices and truly everywhere the consumer is!
Check out the presentation at CES by Samsung:
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