On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 9:31 AM, NitroDesk <[email protected]> wrote:
> > shane, > Did you mean that it is a hard "legal" lock, or is it more like a > "monopolized relationship with the carriers" thing? > More like a monopolized relationship. The response we got from a major carrier in the US was that they didn't see the need for a user to have two markets on the device (AM was a given to them). What we weren't able to get through to the carrier was the community aspect of something like SlideME, which has a heavy developer focus and wants to connect user and developers in a smarter way. The carrier (as far as I can tell) is just seeing the market as a place where people put up apps to sell and people download and buy them; something like a Walmart, where the suppliers and buyers never meet. Google doesn't appear to be approaching it any differently. The whole community aspect and its potential doesn't seem to be there yet: a place where the suppliers and customers mingle. As long as it is viewed this way, it's just Market A or Market B for the carrier, and all Walmarts looks exactly the same. -- Shane Isbell (Co-founder of SlideME - The Original Market for Android) http://twitter.com/sisbell http://twitter.com/slideme --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
