Google is a search company. Owning the platform is Google’s way of making sure they own search. Google does not care about facilitating app sales because they can make 15-30x the money from search.
It's interesting that an ex Googler who implies this is based on inside knowledge would say this.
It illustrates how different their priorities from Apple, who care about 3rd Party developers because they provide key differentiation that adds value to the hardware.
Google's approach leaves differentiation to the individual manufacturers, so the manufacturers have an incentive to want distinctive software on their hardware. That's why we see the motoblur, sense, etc.
I suspect Samsung would love to operate their own App store, but of course they can't because they'd lose Google's support.
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Google is a search company. Owning the platform is Google’s way of making sure they own search. Google does not care about facilitating app sales because they can make 15-30x the money from search.
It's interesting that an ex Googler who implies this is based on inside knowledge would say this.
It illustrates how different their priorities from Apple, who care about 3rd Party developers because they provide key differentiation that adds value to the hardware.
Google's approach leaves differentiation to the individual manufacturers, so the manufacturers have an incentive to want distinctive software on their hardware. That's why we see the motoblur, sense, etc.
I suspect Samsung would love to operate their own App store, but of course they can't because they'd lose Google's support.
I suspect Samsung would love to operate their own App store, but of course they can't because they'd lose Google's support.
Samsung runs their own Appstore. So do most carriers (and NVidia has one especially for Tegra devices).
Google doesn't care, and most developers ignore them because the Google Market is where the action is.
(In Amazon's case it is different because the Google Market isn't installed)
So both stores ship on Samsung's devices?
Then I'd guess Samsung would probably be interested in not shipping the Google Market.
I wonder what would happen if Samsung paid for an exclusive on a big name title - e.g. a future Angry Birds
So far, Samsung's exclusives are more about special features / APIs (like apps that use the Galaxy Note's pen).