I agree with Al. It is doesn't matter if application is open source or
not. Application has is associated with Google and that is enough for
people to prefer it over your application. This is just one
application but I belive that there will be more and more Google
applications. Maybe next application will be like your application but
it will have Google marketing behind and who wants to download
application writen by "John Doe" when there is Google app. Yahoo! can
not compete with Google. Microsoft... who do you belive that you can?

Probably this is just one of many Google apps that are comming and for
developers that want to earn money on Android Market fact that it is
open soruce (FREE) application is not a good news. Maybe I am wrong
but...

On Apr 10, 1:36 am, Jesse McGrew <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Apr 9, 1:59 am, "Al Sutton" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> The app is open source. That means more innovation and variety, not
> less, because anyone who wants a slightly-different password manager
> can base it on this one instead of having to write it from scratch.
>
> Jesse

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