On Aug 21, 12:18 am, Al Sutton <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've said it before, Google developing apps for android (or just putting
> their name to apps their employees develop in their spare time) is probably
> one of the worst things they can do for the ecosystem. (you can see the
> original thread
> athttp://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss/browse_thread/thread/8...).
>
> Sometimes I get the feeling that Google sees Android developers more as a
> source of unpaid help and ideas than seeing us as partners in trying to make
> Android a success.
>
> With my AndAppStore hat on it also bugs me that they don't look to help
> non-Market app directories even though we're serving companies and groups
> they don't (i.e. the ones who can't get the Google stamp of approval), they
> don't list their apps on 3rd party directories, the copy protection system is
> not open to third parties use, and market benefits from using APIs only
> available to system apps, all of which make it extremely difficult for third
> parties of offer a comparable compatible solution.
>
> Grrrr.....
>
> Al.
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> Subject: [android-discuss] Re: Google Listen
>
> yeah,
> thats really bad.
>
> On Aug 21, 6:46 am, JP <[email protected]> wrote:
> > At least they could let everybody know what they are working on so we
> > (independent devs) don't waste our time.
>
> > On Aug 20, 5:43 pm, JP <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > On Aug 20, 1:52 pm, Matt Kanninen <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > > discuss
>
> > > Bad for the ecosystem.
> > > What if an independent team was working on this, say for the App
> > > Challenge. They can basically fold.
> > > Chalk one more up going down.
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