Alternative Android Market To House Banned Apps

Posted by Soulskill on Monday January 23, 2012 @12:22PM 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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Google only removed the emulators... by JackAxe · 2012-01-23 13:31 · 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.
Re:What's he going to call it? by ozmanjusri · 2012-01-23 14:48 · 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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