No, not at all. The thing with Apple is that they allow some of the worst applications while not allowing applications that are great but step on their tows a bit. As long as Google allows applications that Apple would normally decline, its ratio would already be better for google. Thats all i meant.
Thats some wishful thinking...The App Store may decline some apps such as Web Browsers not based on WebKit and well I'm not sure what else they are blocking since they now have allowed Podcaster in. The difference is to develop for iPhone you have to pay a fee, so random people are more hesitant to take the risk, even though it is small.
Android however, can be developed on for free, so any average joe can develop a crap app, say gFart, and stick it on the market. That means there is more than likely going to be a lot more crap than good software unfortunately.
But it's $25 to pay for access to Market publishing, the Android SDK is free, as opposed to $99 for access to the iPhone SDK... at least with the Android Market you can have a working app before you pay the fee (which is almost four times less anyway).
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Hopefully Google can keep the crap/good app ratio lower than Apples app store.
Then again, that shouldnt be a difficult thing to do.
So you are saying you think this will be LESS inclusive than Apple's app store? That goes against the grain.
I think that with the Market we will have a ton of crap applications but also many GREAT applications.
I guess I think (unfortuantely) that we will have a TON of crappy apps : a few of GREAT apps.
No, not at all. The thing with Apple is that they allow some of the worst applications while not allowing applications that are great but step on their tows a bit. As long as Google allows applications that Apple would normally decline, its ratio would already be better for google. Thats all i meant.
Thats some wishful thinking...The App Store may decline some apps such as Web Browsers not based on WebKit and well I'm not sure what else they are blocking since they now have allowed Podcaster in. The difference is to develop for iPhone you have to pay a fee, so random people are more hesitant to take the risk, even though it is small.
Android however, can be developed on for free, so any average joe can develop a crap app, say gFart, and stick it on the market. That means there is more than likely going to be a lot more crap than good software unfortunately.
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There IS a fee to get your apps in the android market, and why in the world would they block a browser regardless of what rendering engine it uses?
But it's $25 to pay for access to Market publishing, the Android SDK is free, as opposed to $99 for access to the iPhone SDK... at least with the Android Market you can have a working app before you pay the fee (which is almost four times less anyway).