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Android Gets Carrier-Operated European App Store
Andrew Smith writes "Android fragmentation begins: EuroDroid reports that Vodafone will launch an Android app store in June, to fill in the European gaps where Google hasn't yet launched the official Android app store. Worrying quote: 'All apps will be pre-selected and tested by [Vodafone's after-sales processor] Arvato Mobile for compatibility with our devices.' Just a few days ago Slashdot covered the suggestion by Barry O'Neil, ex-president of Namco Bandai Network Europe, that it could be wise for Google to 'hand over the entire management of the Android Market to carriers, OEMs, and trusted publishers.'"
Especially when different stores have different pay out rules. If android has umpteen different stores where you have make X in sales before they pay you vs. Apple's model of one place where we at least know the rules....we'll take apple.
But even with our current apps, the download ratio is about 300:1, iphone:android versions. Even blackberry to android is 22:1.
"The problem with socialism is eventually you run out of other people's money" - Thatcher.