其他的安卓市场

Marco Arment (Tumblr和Instapaper名声)写了一一块为他的博客在10月9日,分析双方iPhone应用商店。他的分析是针对iPhone的时候,我相信它拥有相当适用于安卓…特别是如果我们可以开发一个更好的框架Arment先生所说的“B应用商店”。“应用程序商店”,在他的说法,是一个购买冲动,有些市场。应用价格在1美元,所以唯一真正的成功是那些可以闲逛的顶部市场评级一段时间。其他人风将他们的应用程序作为一次性,没有更新他们,如果他们不能获得足够的店内关注收入的可能性。同行:“App Store B与更多的复杂性和深度应用和游戏,狭义的吸引力,开发周期长,和开发人员长期维护。“人们没有发现这些通过市场评级,而是基于建议(例如,Android市场“特色”区域),评论,等等。他们可以命令(即“溢价”价格。,over 1 USD), but are unlikely to gain enough popularity to make ridiculous profits, “but they have a much greater chance of building sustained, long-term income.”Right now, the world of Android is dominated by “App Store A”, simply due to lack of alternatives. There is the Android Market roster of “Featured” apps, and there are Android blogs that do product reviews, but that is about it for promoting applications in an “App Store B” manner.That leaves us with the Android Market “top paid” and “top free” buckets, and not much else. Developers not affiliated with brand names (or VCs that can help engineer PR) are almost forced into creating disposable apps.The Android Market could have seeded the ground for “App Store B” by offering an API or feed of its data. Even if you still have to use the Market client to download or purchase the app, I feel fairly confident that interesting sites would have sprung up to augment the raw Market data. After all, a couple of sites have popped up based solely on pirated Market data. Alas, despite Google's penchant for APIs and feeds, the Android Market still lacks both.Only once Android has a go-to place on the Web for researching Android applications — pulling together formal reviews, user reviews, sales/download ranks, and whatnot — will “App Store B” become a reality for Android.