Here at App-Source we have kept our focus on Apple and its products. Today I would like to look into the Android Market- Google’s answer to Apple’s App Store. Google has stated from the start that the vision for Android Market is to attract developers as well as users. Such was the reasoning in choosing the term “market” over “store.” Android Market is not so much a store run by Google but a market made to bring together app developers and Android OS phone users.
One such developer is a fellow information systems and decision sciences major here at Cal State Fullerton, Jared Rummler. Jared, known as jrummy16 in the Android Market, began making applications and ROMs less than a year ago. His ROMs and apps mainly focus on improving a phone’s performance. Some of his apps, such as Android Overclock, require rooting, similar to jailbreaking on the iPhone. The process known as rooting allows users to break past the barriers set by phone manufacturers, allowing them to improve their phone’s performance.
By the end of 2009, the applications available on Android Market had grown to over 20,000. This number put it ahead of Windows Mobile Market but still far behind the iPhone App Store at 100,000 applications. Some say that many of the App Store’s 100,000 applications are only duplicates of already existing applications and they serve only to make it more difficult to wade through for the average consumer. Android app developers, no matter the country, do have one advantage over iPhone app developers and that is the fact that distribution of Android apps is not limited to Android Market. iPhone apps can only be distributed and purchased through App Store, but Google allows Android Apps to be distributed from any source, so many developers make Android apps available on their own website or on secondary Android application websites.
Jared Rummler’s Rom Toolbox Pro is currently number 20 in the Top Paid in Tools section on the Android Market and is priced at $5 per download. He also has three apps in the top 50 of the Paid in Productivity section, including Android Overclock and App Manager Pro, his latest release priced at $2.99. A free version, but limited App Manager is also available for download on the Android Market. Find their apps at Market.Android.com/developer?pub=JRummy16 or type jrummy16 into the search section of the market.
http://www.dailytitan.com/2011/10/10/apps-for-the-future/
One such developer is a fellow information systems and decision sciences major here at Cal State Fullerton, Jared Rummler. Jared, known as jrummy16 in the Android Market, began making applications and ROMs less than a year ago. His ROMs and apps mainly focus on improving a phone’s performance. Some of his apps, such as Android Overclock, require rooting, similar to jailbreaking on the iPhone. The process known as rooting allows users to break past the barriers set by phone manufacturers, allowing them to improve their phone’s performance.
By the end of 2009, the applications available on Android Market had grown to over 20,000. This number put it ahead of Windows Mobile Market but still far behind the iPhone App Store at 100,000 applications. Some say that many of the App Store’s 100,000 applications are only duplicates of already existing applications and they serve only to make it more difficult to wade through for the average consumer. Android app developers, no matter the country, do have one advantage over iPhone app developers and that is the fact that distribution of Android apps is not limited to Android Market. iPhone apps can only be distributed and purchased through App Store, but Google allows Android Apps to be distributed from any source, so many developers make Android apps available on their own website or on secondary Android application websites.
Jared Rummler’s Rom Toolbox Pro is currently number 20 in the Top Paid in Tools section on the Android Market and is priced at $5 per download. He also has three apps in the top 50 of the Paid in Productivity section, including Android Overclock and App Manager Pro, his latest release priced at $2.99. A free version, but limited App Manager is also available for download on the Android Market. Find their apps at Market.Android.com/developer?pub=JRummy16 or type jrummy16 into the search section of the market.
http://www.dailytitan.com/2011/10/10/apps-for-the-future/
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