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App stores are generally broken because you can have the ability to ban things. We should have an open appstore.
by zitterbewegung 17y ago
App stores are generally broken because you can have the ability to ban things. We should have an open appstore.
- Mark_B 17y ago"He who controls the Spice controls the universe"
- litewulf 17y agoOR allow people to install things by means other than the appstore.
- cookiecaper 17y agoYou can install Android apps from anywhere. EDIT: See http://en.androidwiki.com/wiki/Applications http://en.androidwiki.com/wiki/Applications
- nuclear_eclipse 17y agoExcept with Android, you're free to distribute or install applications through alternate apparently stores, or directly through the internet with .apk files. If Apple allowed that on the iPhone, nobody would care if they banned something from their "blessed" channel...
- elai 17y agoSame with palm pre, except it's ipk files. You can also use a free application hosting version of their "app store", where palm hosts a link to your app, no approval processes/money necessary. It doesn't appear in the catalog this way although.
- Zak 17y agoThe mechanism of banning apps is useful so that users can have a trusted place to get apps known to be free of malware. The way to make sure that mechanism doesn't result in evil policy is to allow an alternate means of installing software. Google does this. Apple does not.
- buster 17y agoand mentioning android in the app description is in which way malware? i see the point in verifying apps that need security (banking mostly). but that doesnt account for 99.99% of apps. Plus, mostly what you hear about which apps where banned, it's not about security. It's about bookreaders that can show the kamasutra (which the browser can, too). It's about software that "replicates" apples functionality. You will never have alternative browsers or mail programs and be tied to apples mercy. I have the choice. Let's face it, the appstore is apples way to have control over its customers.
- dtby 17y agoi see the point in verifying apps that need security (banking mostly). I don't understand how you're using "security" in this sentence.
- AlisdairO 17y agoAlthough this approach creates an opportunity for much easier piracy of applications, too.
- joeyo 17y agoThere are a couple of alternative app stores for Android (I'm not sure what would make them "open", they're certainly more open than the Apple one, but that goes for the official Google Market, too. Here are the ones that I know of for android: * http://slideme.org/ http://slideme.org/ * http://mikandi.com/ http://mikandi.com/ [adult] * http://www.handango.com/ http://www.handango.com/ * http://onlyandroid.mobihand.com/ http://onlyandroid.mobihand.com/