I think its a bad move from google. Instead of looking for the reason, google is attacking the symptom. "Sponsoring" Apps: "It's not our core business to make money with software", will help in the short term for some users, but not help any app developers.
Google is ignoring all the real problems or have no solution for it and instead is throwing money at the problem. - Market sucks - Fragmentation - Market sucks - Android Update process on devices - Market sucks - Buggy releases - Market sucks - Incomplete/Broken Implementation of core features in devices (OpenGL ES) - Market sucks - Java/Dalvik Problems: Garbage Collection Pauses - Market sucks - NDK problems: Missing features, buggy, slow, very low quality - Market sucks - Low latency audio - Market sucks - ... much more Everybody knows the problems... 2011/2/2 Shane Isbell <[email protected]> > > > On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 9:14 PM, Androman <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Nothing good for Android developers. If this is true iPhone will be Nr >> 1 platform for developers. It is hard to compete with Google for many >> companies and for independent developers it is almost impossible. Very >> bad move by Google. >> > 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. If > Google pulls this, then they are going to have some problems with the > community. > > In general, though, developers have had several years to build good apps > and to compete. This is more than enough time to get a solid footing. But > most of the apps are still pretty bad, so no big loss there if Google moves > in and kills them off with something better. > > 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]<android-discuss%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en. > -- 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.
