So from what you're saying Google will make an app that appeals to most consumers and leave developers to pick up whatever's left.
That's not a strategy that’s' going to draw in developers and provide the consumer-attracting breadth of applications that the iPhone. If Googles developers want to work on apps then let them, but they should be on a level playing field and so shouldn't get to use the Google name or PR machine, and if Google wanted to get the engineers to do something users want then starting to work on (and feed back into) the bugs list at b.android.com in the order of most starred first. Al. -- * Written an Android App? - List it at http://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. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jesper Lundgren Sent: 23 August 2009 00:26 To: [email protected] Subject: [android-discuss] Re: Google Listen VLC has by far most users on windows ( there is no download for solaris, and just recently someone put together a script that made it compile with reasonable ease on opensolaris...). the point is, sure most users might use google, but it's impossible to make an application that appeals to everyone and that leaves room for other developers. It has to be remembered that googles PR machine is drawing lots of users to the platform, and that will benefit everyone So if google didn't put out some solid apps to the platform it would it would make it look less interesting for the consumer, and there would be less users for everyone. On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 9:54 PM, Disconnect <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Er... name a major media player that is native to windows. (Winamp counts, but only barely - they came in at a time when WMP didn't handle mp3s, playlists,libraries, etc. And even they lost to iTunes in the end.) Mplayer? Linux. VLC? Solaris (iirc), then linux. Etc. Google competing with you on their home turf is a very BAD thing, no matter how you look at it. (And several of their apps have system permissions, so they at least can do things you can't - not least of which is automatic signup by using the google account info instead of making you fill out another form. I'd need to spend some time with dismali to see if they're taking unfair advantage otherwise.) On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Jesper Lundgren<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > with this reasoning there would be no other media player then windows media > player on windows computers, but clearly that is not the case, and they even > ship it with windows and their os is not opensource so they can possibly use > things that other developers can not get access to. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
