Android Market

[pofak]

Originally Posted by blazespinnaker

I don't think Android will ever be better than iPhone though, but it will be more open, available, and accessible.

In the above statement, are you comparing iPhone vs android phones, iOS vs android OS, or App store vs android market? And what 's your reason?

[App Developer]

So I can get an Android phone for near free. Great! Where can I get one?

Or do you mean that only the source code is free and I have to build my own mobile phone. No, you mean that I can buy an Android phone from Motorola or HTC that costs as much as an iPhone.

Here is a news flash for you: iOS is also free. You buy an iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad and you get iOS for free and updates for two years. It is no different from Android, except that with Android you are lucky to get two weeks of updates if you ever get the latest version to begin with.

Nobody is taking over anything. Not iOS, not Android, not any other mobile OS. iOS devices (iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad) still outsell Android devices.

There is also soon a vastly superior alternative to Android that is also free and even more open than Android: MeeGo (backed by Nokia and Intel). Are you aware that MeeGo phones will come with instructions to root the device. You can always install the latest builds. You can do whatever you want with it. Android will look like a prison camp compared to MeeGo.

The best scenario would be that there would still be competition and several alternatives.

Originally Posted by blazespinnaker

Unless Apple can stop Google via patent suits, Android will take over.

The reason is very simple .. Android generally copies iOS and then gives it away for near free.

They are subsidizing it with their search revenue.

The only way for Apple to stop Android is via lawsuits.

As for other countries developing for Android.. It'll happen very soon.

I don't think Android will ever be better than iPhone though, but it will be more open, available, and accessible.

[Tambourin]

he's speaking about the OS license the phone makers have to pay

[blazespinnaker]

Originally Posted by pofak

In the above statement, are you comparing iPhone vs android phones, iOS vs android OS, or App store vs android market? And what 's your reason?

The DNA of android will always be copy-cat. It's how they 'innovate'. They copy Apple and then open it up. Mediocrity always results from such a culture.

Sure android will do a few things here and there which is new, but the vast majority of what they have done has always been me too.

Don't get me wrong, I'm rooting for Android, but at the end of the day this whole space was formed by Jobs & Apple .. indeed you could say the PC revolution was Jobs & Apple. We forgot that once, I don't think we should ever forget that again.

[blazespinnaker]

Whatever, app developer.

To be totally honest, I could care less what happens. Sure, I'd like to see Android or whatever push back against Heir Jobs, but you know, yawn.

Whatever it is, I'm sure I'll do just fine.

I've been through these cycles for the last 20 years and as always, it's pretty entertaining watching everyone getting all amped up over the latest trend.

[rocotilos]

Originally Posted by App Developer

From: Supported locations for merchants - Android Market Help

Developers in the below countries may register as Google Checkout merchants and sell priced applications:

Austria
France
Germany
Italy
Japan
Netherlands
Spain
United Kingdom
United States

If you don't live in one of those countries you are wasting your time even thinking about Android development. Google does not care about you. Discussion boards are full of petitions to allow other developers to sell apps but Google does not listen.

Wham! how can i miss this info. Ok bye bye Android.