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We seem to live in the exciting time - Android Freeware Directory

In a strangely written announcement, sfdteam@googlemail.com (profile) wrote to the Official Android Development Group about living in the exciting time..

Hello everybody!

We seem to live in the exciting time! The Android Platform looks sooo
impressive and we love completely the technologies behind it. So,
today we are announcing the launch of the Android Freeware Directory,
where we will post the newest releases of the Android-targeted free
applications, utilities and games. Every registered user can add own
freeware application to the directory, so it is completely OPEN and
community-oriented and -driven.

You will be surprised but the Directory is not empty, there is already
one free game called Snake This game was created by Google staff
and was included in the SDK package as a sample. Currently our team
members are working hard to port few other games to the platform.
We’ll add them too as soon as possible.

There will be surely more apps popping up soon from another early
Android adopters all over the world. We’ll be happy to collect all
cool stuff under one common roof.

Feel free to visit the Android Freeware Directory at http://www.android-freeware.org/
and subscribe to the RSS feeds to stay informed of new releases.

With best regards
Smartphone Freeware Directory Team

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ZDNet - The flaw in the Google Android Plan?

Michael Kanellos from CNET News.com writes,

Can Google grovel?

Probably not well, at least not initially, and that could become a major problem in its plans to create a mobile-phone platform that will compete with offerings from Microsoft, RIM and Apple. Technically, a subsidiary called Android will oversee the project, but it’s an appendage of the big G.

The problem is that Android (and, by extension, Google) will inherently be in a subservient position to the carriers and mobile-phone makers. The carriers own the direct contracts with the customer. The carriers and the handset makers as the customers, meanwhile, can pick and choose which software layers to include in their phones. Most likely, they will work with all of the big platforms and play them off against one another.

Being stuck in that sort of sales beauty contest is no fun. You have to laugh at a prospective customer’s jokes, travel at a moment’s notice, and go into minute and dull detail as to why your particular widget remains superior while your “strong alliance partners” pretend to listen. When retail prices get compressed, the software and component makers feel the pain too.

Read the rest of the article at ZDNet, The flaw in the Google Android plan.

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