Android: all smartphones will integrate a Google software store
By admin at 1 September, 2008, 9:21 pm
After Apple, it is the turn of Google officially unveil the content of its future store software for smartphones. Dubbed Android Market, it should integrate all phones equipped with the highly anticipated operating system.
Available initially in beta, the shop Android Market will finally installed automatically in all smartphones Android available on the market. The new service will allow - like the Apple Store App - to install, update, comment and note all existing software for the platform Android.
To that end, Google admits being inspired by the video service YouTube, so it will be very simple for the user to assign a comment and a note to each product. But if Apple has based its business model on the exclusivity of the offer - there are software on the iPhone App Store - Google has chosen the opening, so the procedure referencing an application should be widely simplified .
Recall that for its part, Apple key systematically royalties on the sale of commercial software - about 30% of the selling price - leaving the remaining 70% to the publisher. In addition, billing programs downloaded automatically from its iTunes platform.
This is not true for software Android, however, Google does not specify whether applications may be settled by other means than through its Android Market.
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