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Google outlines big Android Market changes, unhappy with lagging app purchases
In-app purchases can be a goldmine for developers, as some iPhone devs have discovered. Allowing Android app makers to hawk new add-ons, in-game gear and other virtual goods should be good for business. Although, as Engadget points out, it means fewer full-featured apps in the store, and more cheap or free apps with important features you have to pay to unlock.
Meanwhile, to help weed out bogus apps and highlight the best apps in the Market, Google will throw more human reviewers into the mix. Hopefully this should help developers get paid and give them an incentive to keep making good apps.
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Subscribe to commentsEvolutionistJan 26th 2011 1:35PM
I've owned a Droid 2 since its very first day on sale, last Aug. 12th. I believe that if we'd been allowed to just buy Apps and have the cost put on my phone bill I would have purchased at least 10 of them. However, as yet, because of the disagreeable task of having to go fetch my credit card each time, I've only downloaded the free Apps. This would make a great deal of sense.......
JoshJan 26th 2011 2:21PM
The problem isn't the free apps, it's the premium apps. They just don't compare to, say, the apps available for iOS. Search weather on the Market and you'll see a Weather Channel app that reminds you of Windows 95. Search it on the App Store and you get Weather HD which is, quite possibly, the most beautiful app available for any platform.