Yep...as long as there are BOTH a sanctioned venue ("store", whatever) AND the ability to load up anything your sick, little heart desires onto your Android phone, that'll be good. Having to limit yourself to JUST a store would totally suck...I mean, who would put up with that? Oh, riiiight...
Well, there will be no limitations on installing your own software. (There wouldn't even be any benefit to this for Google, because the whole draw of this platform is going to be the massive number of awesome apps (see Breadcrumbz for my current favorite example) available for it... And many of these will likely be both libre (free as in speech) and gratis (free as in beer). Not only that, but since the entire system stack is OSS, removing any such limitations would be trivial and in short order everyone would be using the resulting version.)
In fact, I'm willing to bet that if Android's Market doesn't offer distribution for free apps, an installer.app for Android will be close behind it.
Actually, the Android SDK is so awesome, I'm going to start on one right now just in case (and for fun!). *fires up Eclipse*
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I don't like the reference to a store either, but I do like the concept of a repository for software, a la installer.app.
Yep...as long as there are BOTH a sanctioned venue ("store", whatever) AND the ability to load up anything your sick, little heart desires onto your Android phone, that'll be good. Having to limit yourself to JUST a store would totally suck...I mean, who would put up with that? Oh, riiiight...
Well, there will be no limitations on installing your own software. (There wouldn't even be any benefit to this for Google, because the whole draw of this platform is going to be the massive number of awesome apps (see Breadcrumbz for my current favorite example) available for it... And many of these will likely be both libre (free as in speech) and gratis (free as in beer). Not only that, but since the entire system stack is OSS, removing any such limitations would be trivial and in short order everyone would be using the resulting version.)
In fact, I'm willing to bet that if Android's Market doesn't offer distribution for free apps, an installer.app for Android will be close behind it.
Actually, the Android SDK is so awesome, I'm going to start on one right now just in case (and for fun!). *fires up Eclipse*