If you’ve paid for T-Mobile’s exclusive G1 phone, you can now pay extra for applications on the Android Marketplace – and remember, this is a privilege that iPhone users have “enjoyed” for some time. T-Mobile have certainly remembered that, as they’ve aimed their marketplace at Apple like a giant open-source gun and are hoping to fire at that juicy app revenue stream.
T-Mobile’s secret weapon: no approvals process. If you make an app, you can stick it online and charge what you like for it within seconds. Unlike Apple’s approvals process, which has been likened to jumping through black hoops in pitch dark while concussed by thrown rulebooks written in invisible ink. Instead T-Mobile hope to attract devs with the increased freedom, and rely on an eBay-like customer feedback system to screen out the worst of the inevitable crap that will result.
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