Subscribe Feed (RSS)Android Market Challenges iPhone App Store
August 29th, 2008 by Ted | Filed under Uncategorized.
Google has introduced the Android Market, an online marketplace for developers to hawk the apps they’ve created for the search giant’s cell phone OS, Android. At first blush, the thing looks suspiciously like the iPhone App Store. One key difference: the quality control aspect. Users will govern quality, rather than the proprietor of the marketplace. Unlike Apple’s App Store, Google will apparently not have to certify applications that are offered, but rather use the “Web 2.0″ approach of YouTube, allowing users to vote up or vote down certain apps on a 5-star scale, creating the bubble effect: the good content rises to the top of the heap, while the poor ones get buried. Check it out.
