On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 11:14 PM, Nathan <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On Feb 1, 9:40 pm, Shane Isbell <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > It's only bad if Google competes with and kills the existing viable > projects > > and apps already in the Market, replacing them with their own. > > Really? So there won't be any future independent apps that are viable? > Or is it okay for Google to crush and/or preempt them? > Yes, it's okay for Google to crush future, non-existent projects. It just mean that those developers will put their time into some other project, no time or energy wasted. > > If Google > > pulls this, then they are going to have some problems with the community. > > > And what would the community do about it that would bother Google? > It would create resentment in the community and discourage those good developers from continuing to develop apps for Android. That would be a problem. I didn't say it would bother Google. Google is extremely aggressive if you enter their competitive space so Google may very well try to sink other projects/apps that sit on prime real-estate. I hope they won't but it wouldn't surprise me if they did. Shane -- 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.
