Comments on: Android Marketplace vs. iPhone App Store

By: keleus

keleus — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 17:20:57 +0000

Who cares if a scrabble or tetris clone were removed from the app store when the REAL tetris and scrabble are actually on there.

By: jack johnson

jack johnson — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 11:42:51 +0000

It all depends on how well the android application store is marketed. The appstore is what sets the iphone apart from the other smart phones, but it took around a year before this was a marketable selling point. Now that it has a catalogue of high quality applications, the app store can be marketed in such a way that it interests consumers. You can’t market the android app store as being ‘open’, or being ‘cross platform’ as this won’t interest the majority of consumers. For example, the games available are extremely poor quality, and games are a big selling point of the app store for the casual consumer. They need to get some marketable applications up if they are going to complete.

By: david_salsero

david_salsero — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:09:09 +0000

Android vs Iphone Much remains unknown people gmail accounts, and many people who still do not know the Android Operating SITEMA 2.0 and many phones with endless applications to extienda.Aplicaciones very useful and free like Google Maps and the future skype Navigation Google Talk with videoconferencing and free.
Google expects to have at least 18 phones with the Android operating system by the end of 2009, this certainly translates into thousands or even millions of prospective users of Android, maybe even cell phones are 20 by Andy Rubin said in The Times and these will be 8 or 9 developed by manufacturers of mobile diferentess the most important, Motorola, LG, Samsung, HTC, Philips, Sony, even major computer manufacturers like Dell, Acer, Lenovo, Huawei, Haier, and the last is Spanish with GeeksPhone android.
Along with a free OS to android platform which any developer can access, modify, correct and perfect, makes the future of Android is the most promising of all SO far exceeding the Iphone.
We do not have our hands on the new Android operating system version 2.0 which had settled in 2010 and already being bandied around left to catch the eye where you are working with a new version of Android 2.1. to be completed by February and that will correct the bugs, this is how you work a good OS is linux = therefore free, easy to program, and what is being updated even incorporating multiple devices, portable music players, book readers digital pictures etc … So the fear of iPhone vs Android, has reasons to tremble and have lost this war unless it changes its strategy

By: Android Happy

Android Happy — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 03:07:28 +0000

Questions and speculations are all good and well about how the Android Marketplace is going to work, so you might as well look yourself.

http://developer.t-mobile.org/site/global/home/p_home.jsp

Its the t-Mobile site that they have set up for developers to start getting in on the action. No better place to look then in the horses mouth.

By: phandroid.com

phandroid.com — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 18:12:33 +0000

Aro – read this:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10025915-37.html

1 billion times less likely to happen in an Open Source environment

By: Aro

Aro — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 18:09:07 +0000

I don’t know what this article means by that Apple recently removed its “Tetris Clone” as there are about twenty on the App Store. I’ve had one on my phone for a good five weeks. Apple has only made maybe ten apps for their own appstore.

I’m quite a fan of Android, but it doesn’t make sense to call them censors when you don’t have the facts about what they may be censoring right.

By: OrganizedFellow

OrganizedFellow — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 23:32:00 +0000

So this is the first time it has been said: Android applications WILL be free?

It have assumed this and said ‘probably’ and ‘maybe’ but never have I seen nor read anything definitive. Although it does make sense that an OpenSource OperatingSystem would contain free applications.

But if you look at it, they aren’t free!
They ARE free to download and use by us, soon-to-be Android Users :)
But they were handsomely compensated with their prizes and awards for superior programming in the recent Android Developer Challenge (http://code.google.com/android/adc_gallery/).

There are some truly amazing times ahead of us!

By: Ray Anderson

Ray Anderson — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 10:47:26 +0000

I echo Bill’s GetJar sentiments.

The reason that the Apple IApp store is such a big deal is that there is no other way to get apps down to the iPhone.

Android should have no such restrictions, anybody should be able to sell or provide free apps to Android users, just like they do today with Symbian or Java apps. Hundreds of app stores exist for Java and Symbian apps – they are a relatively open platform. Bango powers quite a few of them – to enable carrier billing or credit card billing on mobile phone.

Imagine if the only way you could buy Windows software was through the Microsoft Windows Marketplace (owned by Microsoft). That would be ridiculous.

Good luck to GetJar opening their Android store. It will be great when Apple opens up the iPhone to allow pepeople to sell apps, music, videos etc. to their currently “walled in” users.

By: George

George — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 03:19:53 +0000

I donno… its awesome that google has come up with android and that android is big… my opinion, though i dont want to judge yet, is that hopefully android will boost linux, being open source and all…
those are just hopes… up untill i see the android phone in the store window or in my hand, android is a fairy tale to me, too good to be true, just like linux, its nice but it doesnt hold the majority of users in the world…

By: Bill Scott, VP Sales/BD at GetJar

Bill Scott, VP Sales/BD at GetJar — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:24:09 +0000

This is a very thoughtful and insightful post. Android’s support of the open model, allowing developers freedom to post whatever app they want, with minimal restrictions, is a great example. We’d like to humbly mention that at GetJar (www.getjar.com) we’ve been doing this for four years, with Java, Symbian, BlackBerry, Palm, Windows Mobile, and Flash Lite apps. Developers can upload whatever they like, and we’ve go 10,000 apps up there today, and 13 million downloads/month. We’ll launch an Android section on GetJar next month, which will continue to push the model further open. So, stay tuned, Android fans!

Bottom line: Google deserves a big pat on the back for being visionary, and opening this business up to third party distribution. Google could have restricted the distribution of Android apps to their own Market, as Apple has done, and Google would probably have had the financial power to make this work fairly well. But they will benefit much more by letting go of the reins, and they see this.

Go Google!

By: Android Market Officially Announced! | Android Phone Fans

Android Market Officially Announced! | Android Phone Fans — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:47:28 +0000

[...] than 24 hours ago we pondered the differences between the inevitable Android Marketplace and the iPhone App Store. Now we’re getting the first official information from Google that the Android Market does [...]

By: Ara Green

Ara Green — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:52:31 +0000

The glitches are minor at best. The ability to upload images on the move is great. The 2.0 update has definitively changed the usability of the phone. Try reading this free report. It provides all the info
you need.

http://www.reportbuyer.com/go/ROA00036

By: Keith

Keith — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:54:59 +0000

“Google and the OHA need to take a good hard look at their initial Android announcement and understand why it was such a big deal to begin with. They need to understand the shortcomings of the iPhone App Store and that anything LESS than what they provide, crippled by the carrier, will be unacceptable. We can all hope for the best but thats just it… right now we’re just hoping.”

QFT