I’ve been experimenting with the Android Market on a variety of phonesover the last few weeks. In particular I’ve downloaded and used several travel apps – flight trackers, city guides etc. In almost every case, I have taken advantage of Google’s policy of allowing full refund for apps returned within 24hrs to get my money [...]
The idea of creating a channel to market across a large and unified customer base is clearly attractive. The operator-backed Wholesale Application Community is an attempt to achieve this, according to the media read-out, to “rebalance” the domination of Google and Apple in app delivery. WAC appears to have started off on the right lines, [...]
…at least five evidently – and you’re right it’s not funny, especially if you are a mobile app developer trying to build and maintain apps for the growing smartphone market. Google recently revealed high levels of fragmentation in their Android platform and has now announced their own Nexus One handset that uses yet another version [...]
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Feb 27
Vanessa Daly
App Stores for mobile phones do seem to be flavor of the month, judging by the announcements at Mobile World Congress this month. Along came Apple and launched a highly successful iPhone App Store and now nearly all the major handset vendors – Nokia, RIM, Google to name a few – have or are jumping [...]
