What I'd like to see is Google hold off creating apps which duplicate the functionality of existing community developed apps (such as OI Safe) so that the market for apps like it can develop.
Once Google produce an app the chances of other developers producing competing apps in that area significantly drops thus stiffling innovation and variety of applications. One thing I give Apple a lot of respect for is that they don't produce apps to compete with the developers they are trying to encourage to use their platform. Al. --- * Written an Android App? - List it at http://andappstore.com/ * ====== Funky Android Limited is registered in England & Wales with the company number 6741909. The registered head office is Kemp House, 152-160 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, UK. The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's subsidiaries. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Andreas Kostyrka Sent: 09 April 2009 09:51 To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: [android-discuss] Re: Google competing with devs... Am Thu, 9 Apr 2009 08:37:02 +0100 schrieb "Al Sutton" <[email protected]>: What did you expect? And it's not exactly competing, it's open source, and so by definition more valueable, because people can check it's working. Closed-Source Crypto software is, by definition, fishy. Andreas > > http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2009/04/secrets-for-android.html > > And > > http://www.openintents.org/en/node/205 > (which was previously http://code.google.com/p/android-passwordsafe/) > > http://www.cyrket.com/package/com.splashidandroid > > http://www.cyrket.com/package/com.alienmanfc6.passwordvault > > http://www.cyrket.com/package/com.android.keepass > > It would seem that even products where Google don't have a current > equivalent product could be at risk of getting rolled on by the Google > machine. > > Al. > > --- > > * Written an Android App? - List it at http://andappstore.com/ * > > ====== > Funky Android Limited is registered in England & Wales with the > company number 6741909. The registered head office is Kemp House, > 152-160 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, UK. > > The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not > necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's > subsidiaries. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
