Telefonica revealed via its BlueVia developer blog that it will be “closing its App Stores in Germany, Spain and Argentina” imminently, without stating its motivation for the move.

The company noted: “as you know we are constantly evolving BlueVia to make it the best we possibly can. Sometimes this means we add new stuff, and sometimes we take things out to help simplify things.”

As before, developers can still offer apps supporting various BlueVia APIs (for example enabling SMS support, mobile advertising or location services) via other stores, and BlueVia will also provide marketing support where appropriate.