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| said by FBGuy:yea but i can't see average joe/jane figuring out that you can install stuff other than the stuff in the marketplace. Being an average Joe/Jane hasn't stopped many from jailbreaking their iPhones. If they don't possess the skills themselves, they will just ask a friend that does. I just got my G1 yesterday so I took the liberty of installing PDANet for Android on my phone. It took less then 3 minutes start to finish to use my computer tethered and all it took is about a dozen clicks either on my computer or on the phone. If you have trouble doing that, you probably have trouble using the phone to begin with.
i don't know for sure what the long term vision is of Android, but I would like to see it become semi-mainstream (in every aspect). what would be sweet is if someone made an app called the "Black (Android) Market" and hosted all the "banned" apps on there. There isn't a huge need for it. Sites I'm sure will pop up, but they will be more like the "shareware" sites for PCs. It won't be just for "banned" apps.
The whole deal is analogous to Microsoft having a "Windows Compatible" marketplace where softwhere developers can showcase their wares, but Microsoft gets the final say on if they allow a particular piece of software to be shown. If they don't allow it, it doesn't mean that the developer can't release it, it just means that they can't show it on Microsoft's app website. How many Windows applications do you get directly from your OS provider or a site directly sponsored by that that provider? None. You get Firefox from GetFirefox.com, you get iTunes from Apple, so on and so forth. |
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