Despite the “free” and “open” buzzwords bandied about during the G1 launch, app developers stand to make a good deal of money the platform — that is, when the Android Marketplace lets them. Google should work out a payment system soon, but until then Handango, who already sells apps for virtually every other mobile platform, [...]
A recent article has listed 11 ways in which Google’s Android platform is better than the operating system (OS) running on Apple’s iPhone 3G.
Following the launch of the T Mobile G1 in New York last week, Tech Radar’s Dan Grabham states that not only will Android be a more open OS, allowing for a wider [...]
from the pissing-off-developers dept
Yet another day and yet another odd attempt by Apple to arbitrarily control what’s in the App Store for the iPhone. A bunch of folks have submitted the news of a podcasting app that’s been blocked because Apple claims it competes with iTunes. This should, of course, scare of iPhone developers even [...]
But it’ll only be in beta for first Android handsetsby Stuart Dredge As the launch of the first handset based on Google’s Android platform draws nearer, the company has unveiled Android’s equivalent of the iPhone App Store.
It’s called Android Market, and the name is apparently important. “We chose the term “market” rather than “store” because [...]
