Android App Store

As the release of Google Android – the search engine company’s own mobile phone operating system – marches ever nearer, it has been announced that owners of the HTC Dream and any subsequent Android devices will have access to a Google Android App store, similar to the Apple iPhone apps.

Developers will have the facility add applications to the market by registering as merchants, and the content will be uploaded and published; Google expects features to be added after the initial launch, including a developers dashboard to display analytics information about their content.

Before the birth of the iPhone, applications only became widely used when developers managed to convince the cellphone operator to preload it onto a phone.  A challenge in itself, the iPhone apps model builds upon the proliferation of Java apps and Windows Mobile applications by organising everything in one place and taking a share of the price.

Android is set to make the concept of mobile phone apps to the masses. We wish it the best of luck.

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