>From my experience with AndAppStore my suspicion is they have deals with OEMs >which don't have Market pre-installed so any market links will break because >it's unlikely Amazons market will carry all of the apps as Google Market.
Over the 2 years we developed and ran AndAppStore we deliberately didn't try to intercept market:// URLs because it could easily confuse less technical users when they get a pop-up which offers them a choice of multiple markets some of which wouldn't provide what the user wanted (i.e. access to the app being linked to). I think there's a lot of guessing going on here about what people *think* Amazon and Google are trying to achieve, so it might be better to revisit this once Amazon have a public user-facing application which can be examined. Al. On 11 Jan 2011, at 19:07, TreKing wrote: > On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Rich <[email protected]> wrote: > First of all, that's the whole point. If Google, who made the damn SDK in > the first place, doesn't make THEIR market app the explicit handler of market > url's, then why is it ok for Amazon to enforce that kind of behavior. > > These are two companies setting policy for how their particular stores and > apps work. It's theirs and they get to set the rules, same as how you set the > rules for how your app works. > > And on top of that, they expect me to compile a separate branch of code > specifically to upload to their market to support that. > > Really, this shouldn't require a separate branch. For example, I am adding a > "Market" class from which I'll derive the markets I'm building for. Each > class can define it's name and app detail page link, among other things. > Setting the right one should take 2 seconds of changing a static flag before > building the app release. Used correctly, through the magic of polymorphism, > it should just work. > > AND, after that first introductory year or if I join later than the first > batch of early adopters, I have to pay them $99 too. How does that not > qualify as totally lame? They're enforcing Apple-esque rules where Google is > not, and on Google's own platform. > > Qualifying as "totally lame" subjective, I think. You are complaining about > the restrictions of the new store as if either a) you've been publishing on > the store for years and they just pulled the rug out of under you or b) > someone is forcing you to put your app on this store. Neither is the case > here. If you don't like their rules, don't put your app on their store. It's > really that simple. > > But........if you do buy apk's from Amazon and you don't have their market, > how the hell is the average user expected to install the app? They have to > be running some kind of app to install stuff they bought on Amazon, so > essentially, there's not really a case where they won't already have Amazon's > software installed on their phone. > > I assume it to be technically possible to buy from Amazon's store directly > from a browser from your device, which would let you download the APK and use > the built-in installer to install the app - no extra app required. Although > I'm sure they'll put out a companion app to facilitate the whole process. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > TreKing - Chicago transit tracking app for Android-powered devices > > > -- > 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. -- 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.
