On Thursday 25 September 2008 11:44:01 Ian Forrester wrote: > Once again, a reason for the non-geeks to buy the Dream/G1/1st Gphone?
I'm unclear, but I suspect that the Android Marketplace having very different policies from the Apple App store will become a differentiator. Essentially, a number of developers are coming to the conclusion that it is risky to develop commercial apps for the iPhone essentially due to gatekeeper issues. (Google aren't in competition with those developing for the platform) http://www.macrumors.com/2008/09/23/apple-extends-non-disclosure-to-app-store-rejection-letters/ http://speirs.org/2008/09/12/app-store-im-out/ Some people are so boggled by what's happening with the iPhone that it's resulted in things like this: * http://www.joyoftech.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/1151.html The effect I suspect, unless Apple change their minds, will be a shift of developers to the Gphone - a bit like what happened when the BBC bought H2G2, coinciding with wikipedia being founded... Michael. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
