There are already several including few from 3rd parties, carriers and OEMs
SlideME Shopapps from Motorola Vodaphone to launch its own app store ( http://www.intomobile.com/2010/04/13/vodafone-to-launch-its-own-android-app-store.html ) AndAppStore (http://andappstore.com) Playnow by Sony Ericsson Most of the carriers/OEM either have their own apps supporting other platforms (read as non-android). so, they will be extending them even with all the hue/cry around. -Dan 2010/5/21 Tomáš Hubálek <tom.huba...@gmail.com> > > > On 21 kvě, 16:50, Gabriel Simões <gsim...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Well, my opinion: > > > > - paid apps (for users) > > > > -> The problems google have to be able to sell to any country, any > > store will have: laws! Apple took a lot of time to open an app store > > here in Brazil and still most of the apps aren´t available because the > > governament has a diferent age definition per category here, so most > > games aren´t publihed. > > There is 27 countries in European Union that have compatible law. > Developers from only 6 of them can sell and users from about 7 can > buy. This is strange, isn't? Why Google does not state clearly that > this is law compatibility issue? > > > - paid apps (for developers) > > > > -> This sucks, and sucks hard! It´s something google needs to fix as > > soon as possible. Most users are on USA and Europe but developers are > > around the whole world and using ads to support our development is > > taking things to the limit already. > > Agree. > > > - no trash apps (some form of quality standards) > > > > -> Freedom vs. Closed systems. This is the discussion between app > > store and android market. I prefer open systems where anyone can > > publish anything. This way the comunity will show what is best and > > what is worst. Also, the ability to ask for a refund forces developers > > to make great apps in order to receive anything for them. If there´s > > someone to say if your app is good enough we will see the same old > > story again: rejected apps for no reason, long delays between > > releases .... > > In this case I do agree that android market should use a system to > > give emphasis to the best apps and start putting the crap ones on the > > lower parts of the search lists... > > Agree. Sometimes I'm curious why some app will less downloads and > lower rating is at higher position. Not sure what is the algorithm for > this and whether it is optimal. > > Tom > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<android-developers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
