After 5 years of being a loyal Windows Mobile user I have finally surrendered to the pressure and gone and bought an iPhone.  It’s a good phone and many would argue that WM is just as good with the HTC Touch HD having a bigger screen yadda yadda yadda.    What I discovered was it wasn’t about the phone.  In the end the reason I moved was the applications.  You can get just about anything on the iPhone from the AppStore and not just games (I’m not a game player) but useful stuff!  Most free, and some for just a couple of dollars.  It’s easy to use, it works and its useful. 

So I got to thinking about Sharepoint.  Out of the box it quite useful but left to your IT department to implement will leave you with about 10% (not a real stat) of its usefulness.

The business apps that you can easily implement on top of the platform are where Sharepoint really comes into its own.  Not that hard to write either. 

So what about a Sharepoint AppStore?  For $499 just download a generic HR leave request app.  Or for $2999 download a Virtual Earth enabled truck tracking App.   The developer community or ISV community write the applications and businesses buy them.  

I reckon someone must have thought of this already?