I see what you mean, maybe they took the "Talk like a Pirate Day" too literally. The moderator is asking people to find certain apks and saying " I don't think it's wrong that we link to whatever we can find for now as testing."
But it's really Archos's fault. They didn't work with the Android community and expected a large number of apps to arrive at their door. Opening an AppStore is not like the old model, where a company would release a content store and the content aggregrators will come and stock it for you. They are dealing with thousands of individual developers, who are suspicious to say the least. So now Archos has a major device with 70 or so apps on it and their users are scrambling for anything. It's something Archos will have to clean up. And since they aren't part of the Android community, it will be a lonely job that they will have to do alone. On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Al Sutton <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for picking that up Shane, it was a cut and paste from twitter. The > full URL is; > http://forum.archosfans.com/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=25838 > > Al. > -- > > * Looking door Android Apps? - Try 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. > > On 19 Sep 2009, at 15:16, Shane Isbell wrote: > > Are you sure the link is right? I'm just seeing something about wordpress > themes? > > On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 12:50 AM, Al Sutton <[email protected]> wrote: > >> It's because without them users of devices without Google Market end up >> doing things like this; >> >> http://bit.ly/MfSH >> >> Where the forum admin of one of the most popular Archos forums is linking >> to pirated software so that Archos 5 users can get hold of apps (the Archos >> 5 doesn't come with Google Market) >> >> Al. >> -- >> >> * Looking door Android Apps? - Try 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. >> >> >> >> > > > -- > Shane Isbell (Co-founder of SlideME - The Original Market for Android) > http://twitter.com/sisbell > http://twitter.com/slideme > > > > > > > -- 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
