PocketGear acquires Handango, becomes world’s largest cross-platform app store

Now this is intriguing. PocketGear has just acquired its former competitor Handango in the cross-platform app store space, and can now claim a library of software that places it right alongside Apple’s App Store in terms of the pure number of applications on offer. PocketGear has been busy providing the infrastructure for things like Samsung’s TouchWiz widget store and Palm’s Software Store for a while, whereas Handango used to be the largest independent app store out there, and their consolidated catalog will offer more than 140,000 applications on all the major non-Apple platforms: Android, BlackBerry, Palm, Symbian, and WinMo. The number of actually useful apps has not been disclosed, but we love the idea of an independent competitor nudging the proprietary stores along so let’s hope things go well for them. Full PR after the break.

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