Android to get an App Store, cleverly called Android Market
Leave it to Google to step in where others have mishandled the ball. It seems their mobile platform Android is getting its very own App Store ala Apple, except without all that pesky submit-and-pray scenario iPhone devs have been unable to complain about. OK, they can complain, they just can't share notes on the actual development process. Google is taking the open road here, and it appears there won't be those issues at Android Market.From the Android Developer's Blog: "Similar to YouTube, content can debut in the marketplace after only three simple steps: register as a merchant, upload and describe your content and publish it." Holy smokes, that's it? While developers are busy doing the three-step for Google, one wonders what will become of the Great VC Gold Rush currently playing out around Apple's mobile sexpot.
[via CrunchGear]
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Quikboy said 5:42PM on 8-28-2008
Man, I really hope WinMo 7 has some type of central application store of it's own. There's like a bazillion things you can download for WinMo, but it's scattered all over the web, in horrendous ways. I hope WinMo 7 is actually more consumer oriented, or else it won't benefit from things like this that users really want, instead of the usual stuff.
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Jash Sayani said 6:24AM on 8-29-2008
Cool. An AppStore for a device that no one has !!
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Tush said 12:33PM on 8-29-2008
You have to buy apps? Lame. It better be mostly free software.
Good thing I've got my Freerunner.
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