On Jun 19, 2:32 am, Tomáš Hubálek <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm frustrated from current situation and I guess I'm not alone > Tom You must be new here, as they say... What's going on with Android Market is a function of what makes Google click. And that's selling ad space. They make like 99.9% of their revenue from that. Put all the blogs and T-shirts and Jaguar using Apps aside - at the end of the day, that's all they are interested in. Chrome and Android come into play to break Google's dependency on the Mozillas, Microsofts, Apples, Nokias and Motorolas in the world in their ability to reach eyeballs. All they want to accomplish with efforts like Chrome and Android is to mitigate the risk of being shut out by a third party. So they go for vertical integration. Right off the bat now, Android is central to Google's interests only to the degree that they get it on devices. And Market really only needs to be good enough to effectively distribute updates of Maps, Voice, Tracks and their other warez. If you think it's essential that enabling independent devs would equally be important - you're not alone. It's just that Google obviously don't seem to agree. Or not as much, anyhow. It's not like committing to Bada, Ovi or iTunes would suggest that one could quit his or her dayjob quite yet. But at least with these guys I get the sense that the originating brand's fate is tied to the success of independents to some tangible degree. At this point, I'm pretty much only waiting for the Ovi Maps API to come out of Beta, and I'll spend some time with that I'm sure. It's a shame really, the Android SDK is great, but that's where things stand these days. If you have a vision in mobile apps... I'd say, grow out of focusing on particular platforms quick. If the effort of developing your vision on all these platforms seems too overwhelming, I'd say you don't really have a play the way things stand in mobile these days. -- 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.
