Battle of the Indie App Stores: GetJar Ejects Opera Mini

Opera just announced that it will be launching a mobile app store of its own that will feature around 140,000 free and paid apps for mobile platforms like Android and BlackBerry. The folks at Opera might not have even taken a breather from pushing this news out to thousands of media publications and we are hearing chatter that GetJar, one of the largest independent app store has ejected Opera Mini from its store.

Opera just announced that it will be launching a mobile app store of its own that will feature around 140,000 free and paid apps for mobile platforms like Android and BlackBerry. The folks at Opera might not have taken a breather from pushing this news out to thousands of media publications and we are hearing chatter that GetJar, one of the largest independent app store, has ejected Opera Mini from its app store.

Apparently GetJar has decided to walk down this lane, because by launching its own mobile app store, Opera Mini browser effectively became a competitor to GetJar.

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