Verizon Wireless in application store shutdown mode

Verizon Wireless users can expect a change in the next month, and Motorola RAZR users should expect a second. Verizon has chosen to shutter its app store with a stated timeline of the end of March 2013.

According to the announcement the company has made available, users will have the store removed from their devices by March 27. This presumably means that all the Verizon-developed applications will be gone as well. With some digging around the Internet, it's easy to see that this change is welcome and that users will be happy to get space back on their phones, relinquished by the seldom used applications.

RAZR users have also been promised an update to Android version 4.1 Jelly Bean with roll-out time frames going as far back as December of last year. Currently, the roll-out is expected to be before the end of March which leaves the company with about a month left of wiggle room.

This coincides nicely with the application store removal. And it would make sense that the removal would be wrapped into a single update. Besides "soak testing" the Jelly Bean update for these phones, it's practical to hold off until the store removal is all set to go, and then do them together. Since the update was already leaked-and-then-pulled by the company around Christmas it's safe to assume that the currently hold-up is, at least in part, related to the store removal.

Citations

Verizon Apps Closing January 2013
http://developer.verizon.com/content/vdc/en/verizon-app-market/verizon-market-va-anouncment.html

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