The Android Market is growing well
AndroLib, a website which refers the applications available on the Google Android Market, indicates that there is at least 10,000 apps in it. They admit that they cannot “scan” the Market entirely. But it is a good information about the growth of this application store and about its health. It is about 4 times more [...]
Some news about Android market update
Google decided to update its Android Market, to help users to do a best research in the market. So, now they will see charts with “top paid”, “top free”, and the news, called “just in”. And, at least, Google chose to add some screenshots from developers, to let users making reviews, to give their opinion. [...]
A $195 million gap between AppStore and Android Market
There are differences between Apple AppStore and Google Android Market.
The application game “Trism”, launched on the appStore earned its developer $250,000 in its first two months. Following this success, Trism’s developers adapted the popular application to Android. On the Android market, the game was sold for a total of a 500 copies in the nearly three months since [...]
AppsLib : bigger applications for bigger devices
On next September 15th in Paris, Archos, the French multimedia-player builder will talk about the co-venture with Google, to make an alternative development platform for applications, already available, called AppsLib, and more specifically about their probably new tablet (before the Apple one?). So what is this new “feature”? Google Android is possibly setup not [...]
There is 1% of apps banished from Android Market
Google bans only 1% of apps for its Android Market. Against the Apple process to accept or not an application, the Google way is some kind different: Google allows the Android Market users to help decide what is in keeping with their policies. The percent banned represent approximately 60 applications. But the question is: which [...]
No future for app stores?
In the debate about which technologic system will be interesting to develop for, Google takes a little bit schizoid position. In an interview, Vic Gundotra, Google’s engineering vice president, says that the web had already won, because smart phones users would get their information and entertainment from browsers in future. “What we clearly see happening [...]
