Google's Andy Ruben talks about Android Market

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This is all great news for the consumer but the $2 fee that T-Mobile wants to be paid by the developers is completely absurd. This is exactly the same thing the ISPs were trying to do to Google a few years ago. They were complaining that much of the traffic on their networks was coming from or going to Google services. That is, they wanted Google to pay a fee for this traffic. You know, the traffic that was already being paid for by their customers. Their custoemrs were simply using the broadband they pay for and just because many of them happened to be visiting google sites, the ISPs wanted to double dip and get paid twice for the same bandwidth. Naturally, Google laughed heartily and said, "Hell no." T-Mobile customers will already be paying data plan fees for any data that goes to/from the various app servers. In short, T-Mobile can shove the $2. Nice try though. Again, just like before with the ISPs vs. Google, it is NOT the app developers who are using up your precious network, it's your paying customers.