Andy Rubin, Android’s Project Leader said the following words:
“It would be a great benefit to the Android community to provide a place where people can go to safely and securely download content and where a billing system would allow developers to get paid for their effort. We wouldn’t have done our job if we didn’t provide something that helps developers get distribution.”
So everything points to Google offering an iPhone-like App Store to download ANDROID applications. I hope they don’t mean to make this the only way to do it, as long as it would be a wrong idea.
These kind of stores are good alternatives for easy application distribution. Freeware, demos, etc.. The idea could also be good for commercial applications like games, productivity applications, etc.. But in an enterprise environment, with applications being distributed in a controlled environment, its better to trust in-house deployment, for security reasons.
We’ll have to keep an eye on the news surrounding ANDROID.
Things are getting pretty exciting lately!!!
Via The Register
