A little over a year ago, Verizon announced their intention to create a multi-platform app store for devices running on their network. This was met with a decidedly Chilly response because customers and commenter’s feared that Verizon would supplant native app stores to push their own.
Fast foreward to today. Verizon sucessfully launched their app store on Blackberry, with those devices still shipping with the native Blackberry App World installed, and now they want to do the same thing to Android. And no, this isn’t the end of the world (At least, it doesn’t have to be).
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Read moreRecently, this link was brought to my attention about a story over at Android and Me. Gameloft, one of the larger names in Mobile Gaming, recently started porting over some of their most popular iOS titles to android. Sounds great, right? But there’s a catch, they’re not using the Android marketplace to distribute content.
Instead, would be users need to navigate to their website from your handheld and purchase it from there, side-loading (loading a program from outside the market) it into your phone. (Sorry ATT customers). Their reasoning for that is that the android market is still new and they are exploring alternative ways to get their products to consumers. But is this really the case, or is it, like Android and Me wonders, part of some larger conspiracy?
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