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Alternative Android Market To House Banned Apps

Posted by Soulskill on from the where-are-the-fun-apps-are dept.

sl4shd0rk writes "In contrast to the Apple's iron-fisted control over their App store, the Android Market is much more open. Google does, on occasion, remove apps it deems inappropriate, such as emulators, legally-questionable music services, tethering apps and one-click root apps. But if Koushik Dutta of CyanogenMod fame has his way, these heretic apps may have a home after all. Dutta plans an 'underground' Android Market complete with an approval process to weed out malicious applications; something Google doesn't do. Ideally, this will give Android users a more trustable source from which to get applications without having to resort to dictatorial software control."

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  1. I believe it already exists... by wbr1 · · Score: 3, Informative

    I don't know if they continue to host 'banned apps', but slideme.org is an alternative marketplace that seems to have a lot of stuff. It is ostensibly for those in countries who are banned from the market or those who don't like the Google TOS.
    I used it briefly as I could not get the market running on my new phone at first. It would not associate with my Google account on WiFi or data using any of the ordinary means. It was not until I logged into YouTube that I got the association working. Even the gMail app would not log in until then. Isn't that strange. You would think Google would have their shit together better than that, but I digress.
    My brief experience with slideme.org lead me to think that many of the apps are older, or cracked and possibly mal-ware, security problem laden versions, but I don't have enough experience to qualify that judgement well.

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  2. Google only removed the emulators... by JackAxe · · Score: 4, Informative

    That were breaking the license agreement of the code they based their app on; so SNesoid and Gensoid as an example. One can still download a ton of different emulators from Google's market; some are free, some cost a tid-bit.

  3. Re:What's he going to call it? by ozmanjusri · · Score: 4, Informative

    I propose that the next version be called "Creampie."

    It'll be called "Jelly Bean".
    http://www.androidzene.com/the-key-features-of-android-5-0-jelly-bean/

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