What I wonder is whether Google's Android Market (or whatever it ends up being called) will also be available to distributors of free applications, or if it only makes sense in a "developer collects money, Google takes a cut of that" fashion.
Personally, I'm hoping this will be more like a user-friendly package manager with support for non-free(-as-in-beer) software purchases and fully open-source app downloads as well. Imagine something like a hybrid between a software marketplace and, say, the app downloader (which is a rather full-featured package manager) currently available for cracked iPhones.
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What I wonder is whether Google's Android Market (or whatever it ends up being called) will also be available to distributors of free applications, or if it only makes sense in a "developer collects money, Google takes a cut of that" fashion.
Personally, I'm hoping this will be more like a user-friendly package manager with support for non-free(-as-in-beer) software purchases and fully open-source app downloads as well. Imagine something like a hybrid between a software marketplace and, say, the app downloader (which is a rather full-featured package manager) currently available for cracked iPhones.