You don't think tmobile paid through the nose to fund android development? The app store is more their's than google's - like so much of android, it was designed to their specs and built with their money.
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Lon Lentz <[email protected]> wrote: > > One thing I have found disappointing so far is T-Mobile's involvement in > the app process. Their only real involvement to date has been to kill a > pretty useful application. They have failed to do anything positive. > > I don't know what their contract with Google limits them to, but they > could set up an app store on their own. Allow a certain dollar amount of > downloads per month to be tacked onto their customers' monthly bills. And > keep 30% of the app revenue in exchange for payment handling and store > frontage. > > The thing that I find irritating, and perhaps is a big motivator to the > failures that mobile providers experience, is that they want total control > of your handset, but they don't want to provide anything useful. > > On one side, we have AT&T and Apple with a totalitarian system but a ton > of useful applications. It's an appliance and people find it useful. There > are some signs that Apple is struggling to get control of its app approval > process. But, screw the developers over and there's not much to the iPhone. > And I would argue that the unlockers and early app developers made that > phone a success. > > On the other side, we have a controlling mobile provider wanting to limit > how their customers utilize their services, yet want to participate in the > "open source" and "free software" movements because they think it's cool and > kitschy (can I use that word?). And Android allows them to do both. They've > provided nothing to the advancement of Android. Except a network to allow > customers to be locked to for two years to get the device. If the next US > carrier to get an Android phone has greater participation in driving the > source and provides a great venue for apps, T Mobile could be in a world of > hurt. > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
