Luckily, we don't have to compete on the basis of name alone. If Google decides to make an app that competes with mine, but it's actually a less useful app, then a well-implemented rating system will make that apparent and I'll have nothing to worry about.
(I'm not saying the market ratings actually *are* well-implemented, but that's a separate issue.) Finally, if developers who want to earn money are upset about "open source (FREE)" applications undercutting them, I say tough luck. Price competition is nothing new. Free competition is bad for profit-minded developers, but it's *great* for end users, and there are a lot more end users than profit-minded developers. Jesse On Apr 9, 4:52 pm, Amir Alagic <amirs...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 <jmcg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Apr 9, 1:59 am, "Al Sutton" <a...@funkyandroid.com> 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 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to android-discuss@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-discuss+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
