Update Google officially opened the "Android Market" on October 22, which distributes applications for the company's mobile phone OS "Android", and since 2009, the sales of applications downloaded and sold on the site.A new system that provides 70 % of the programmer is also scheduled to start.
The initial application lined up on Android Market is already more than 50 and all can be downloaded for free.Google states that in the first quarter of 2009, paid applications will be available on Android Market.
In addition, the programmer will be distributed, and from the 27th, the programmer is a new application, in contrast to the approach that Apple has taken in the "App Store", which distributes the software for iPhone for iPhone.Can be added.Programers are currently needing to pay $ 25 as registration fees.
On the official blog for Android developers on the 22nd, Eric Chu, who is involved in the Android project on Google, says on the official blog for Android developers, "From the 27th, just upload and release the application after registration, and release a new app.Is possible. This is a very simple mechanism. "
The first HTC mobile phone "T-MOBILE G1" equipped with Android has finally been released, and pre-orders have been accepted for T-Mobile users, but in San Francisco, the number on the night of the 21st before the release.Ten people have lined up.Google has also started promotion of G1 on a often traffic search page.
Apple has a policy of providing programmers 70 % of sales, and RESEARCH IN Motion (Rim) offers 80 % of sales for Blackberry programmers.
For the mobile phone industry, the unique attraction of Android Market is that Apple plans to keep the remaining sales, while Google has the remaining sales without any special charges.It is about taking a policy to provide a mobile phone service carrier (it has not yet been revealed how RIM has allocated the remaining sales).
"Google doesn't intend to take 1 % of Google. We are convinced that this sales model will provide fair and positive experiences for both users, developers, and careers.There is. "
The mobile phone equipped with Android incorporates an Android Market -compatible application.People without Android -equipped mobile phones can browse available applications from the Android Market site on the Internet.