According to BusinessWeek, Google is very likely to build an app store for Google Wave. BusinessWeek spoke to Lars Rasmussen, Google’s software engineer manager who directs the Wave team: “So many developers have asked us to build a marketplace – and we might do a revenue-sharing arrangement.”

Google of course hopes that developers will build applications for Wave that make the communication platform even more attractive, the same approach as Apple and other manufacturers and operators use for making their platforms more useful and fun.

A challenge for Google would be to let the apps work with any device Google Wave is compatible with. The Apple App Store has been so succesful because of the ease of development for the few iPhone models out there; for Google Wave this could be different, because of the multitude of devices Wave will support.

However, Wave attracts significant attention among developers already. Since Wave’s introduction in May, developers have developed hundreds of add-ons for the service, according to Rasmussen.

Remco van den Elzen

Tags: Google Wave, google wave app store

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