Hi, I think developers should be the entirely responsibility for any and all copy protection/drm measures ( preventing unlicensed program execution ) for their application programs if they think it is necessary.
I accept this it is not so easy for digital content providers ( music, ringtones, themes, video, wallpaper etc ) but these too could be delivered from within a licensed application program wrappers. The current market app store copy protection mechanism is also an impediment preventing such apps being legitimately stored/backed up and executed from an SD card - as well as denying legitimate access to adp1 users. Existing G1 users in different regions and different providers ( non TMO ) already do not have access to all market apps - I cannot download (free) Pac-Man for example, as it seems to be limited to TMO users, I have G1 in Australia not on TMO. As more providers come on board ( Vodaphone, SingTel, Optus etc ) will they too restrict certain market applications to users of their own networks ? (probably) How is the 30% cut to be distributed when there is multiple providers - especially if they are competitors in the same regions ? How do you legitimately transfer licensed paid apps between devices ( eg G1 to G2 ) without being forced to purchase them again ? etc etc So it currently looks alpha ish to me. Is 'Net Neutrality' applicable to the telco mobile wireless networks, and why does this still limit me when I use wifi to access the market store ? Maybe Apple could start distributing Android apps and content through iTunes as well... Regards On Mar 2, 10:49 pm, Al Sutton <[email protected]> wrote: > If download numbers are your only concern I can assure you that it's > being worked on. > > Koolu are predicting over half a million units will be running their > Android distribution by the end of the year and the AndAppStore client > will be pre-installed on them in the same way Market is on the G1. We've > already seen a significant increase in traffic since they put the client > in their Beta3 release a few weeks ago. > > Added to that the AndAppStore client is in the NITdroid N810 port and > we've been seeing some activity from Intel which reported to be coming > from Android running on an Atom processor development board that's the > basis for many Netbooks, so there may be many more groups which have > taken up our open offer of including the AndAppStore client in their > distributions but have yet to make a release aimed at consumers. > > Al. > > [email protected] wrote: > > It's NOT an alternative store currently, of course, sorry. > > -- > > * Written an Android App? - List it athttp://andappstore.com/* > > ====== > Funky Android Limited is registered in England & Wales with the > company number 6741909. The registered head office is Kemp House, > 152-160 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, UK. > > The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not > necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's > subsidiaries. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
