Businessweek.com A must read Google's Andy Rubin on Android Market

[swaney29]

http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/techbeat/archives/2008/10/googles_andy_ru.html


Andy Rubin, who heads up Google’s Android efforts, spoke to me yesterday about his vision for the Android Market. In particular, we talked about how the market will be different from Apple’s iTunes App Store and some other efforts, which also peddle software for cell phones.

Rubin’s message: Google won’t impose many of the restrictions Apple developers have been grumbling about. Unlike iPhone aficionados, developers using Android Market will, for example, be able to allow consumers to try their applications for free before they buy them. This may seem like a small thing, but developers name lack of free trial as one of the biggest reasons behind their lukewarm App Store sales.

Android Market also won’t place limits on how much bandwidth a given application may use up. T-Mobile G1 phone launch partner, T-Mobile USA, just announced that it will ask developers whose free apps take up more than 15 Megabytes of bandwidth per user per month to pay it a $2 monthly fee. Since G1 users will be downloading apps from the Android Market, which offers no such restrictions, that policy, it seems to me, may be difficult to enforce.

As a result, I wouldn't be surprised if some Apple developers migrate over. Android Market could end up being a bigger hotbed of innovation than even the App Store. "We want the next killer application to be written for cell phones, not the Internet," Rubin said

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[uga.buga]

I used google translate to Translate that 2nd link you have us. It Says

Developers of applications that in T-Mobile's mobile download come, as users have to pay too much fresh data token. That is in the small print of the agreement of T-Mobile.

The download is not yet open, but the developer site last month was already open. The plans for T-Mobiles own version of the App Store came six weeks ago outside. In the download applications must come to all mobile phones except the iPhone: applications that only in Apple's own App Store appear.

Developers who write an application where users go online, will hitch find: they will have to pay too much bandwidth as users on the network of T-Mobile. The provider allows users 15 MB deprived, then developers have about two dollars per user to make T-Mobile. If the application T-Mobile much more bandwidth costs, which runs for 4.50 dollars per user. For paid applications, the limit of 15 MB not: developers must immediately pay per user, with the same rates.

The question is whether T-Mobile can maintain this restriction. Developers have a choice and are increasingly placing their applications offer. Thus comes with a Google Android Market, Microsoft wants to open a download for Windows Mobile and Nokia and Samsung have their own sites, where users can download Symbian applications.Its Kinda Hard to read, but at least you can actually understand a little bit =]

[swaney29]

its pretty much sayin everybody else wants to jump one the app store bandwaggon