In the first 10 days after Apple opened its App Store for the iPhone, consumers downloaded more than 25 million applications, ranging from games like “Super Monkey Ball” to tools like New York City subway maps. It was nothing short of revolutionary, not only considering the number was so high but plus considering iPhone users could do it at all.

Consumers have expanded been frustrated with how much control U.S. carriers — AT&T, Verizon Wireless, Sprint and the like

— have exerted by what they could download to their mobile phones. But in the last nine months, carriers, software developers and cell phone makers have embraced a new attitude of openness toward consumers.

Verizon Wireless, which said in November that it would open its network to any device maker that could create a mobile phone compatible with its network, has already welcomed a few business-oriented devices. It hopes to announce […]

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