Downloading to Memory card, why it MAY never happen

[rogers]

Alright... Listen!

First off, rumors have been cited that Google is going to release an update addressing this. Perhaps, but even if they don't remember we're running on a linux kernel. The fix is simple.

Say you find out the bulk of your apps are in:

/usr/local/apps/

So you have like

/usr/local/apps/breadcrumbz
/usr/local/apps/opera
/usr/local/apps/...

You would just open up the terminal (which I've heard alot about and am very excited about having linux shell access on my phone!) and enter...

~ $ mv /usr/local/apps /sdcard/
~ $ mount --bind /sdcard/apps /usr/local/apps
~ $ echo /sdcard/apps /usr/local/apps bind defaults 0 0 >> /etc/fstab

And BAM you just moved all your apps to the storage card and set it up so that whenever android accesses or writes to /usr/local/apps it's writing to the storage card. The power of linux haha.

This is NOTHING to be worried about.

[JoshHart]

I'm not going to lie, I didnt read the previous posts, but you currently can download to the SD card by downloading from the manufactures sites instead of marketplace, but this is being changed so they will download to SD from marketplace also. This isn't the first phone to offer programs or SD storage, the way most developers protect their programs is by activation and/or product keys in Windows Mobile, I'm sure the same will be true for the G1.