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Old 05-10-2011, 02:49 PM   #1601
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Well, when there's no restrictions and any fool with a computer can throw an app into the android marketplace, that doesn't surprise me. I'm with you; quantity means nothing if so many of them are shit.
It has nothing to do with them being shit (which is true for both) but it has to do with critical mass. Both markets (in regards to phone apps) have reached critical mass.

On a side note, Android's apps just got a MAJOR boost with the addition of a ton of cool new developer tools and the Open Accessory API. Google knocked it out of the PARK with today's announcements.

Here are some quotes on Android 3.1 and what is now available to developers...

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Android 3.1 includes a new Open Accessory API (for interfacing with hardware accessories), a USB host API (for connecting USB controllers and devices), resizable home screen widgets, a media transfer protocol (for connecting cameras), and a real-time transport protocol (RTP) API for audio.
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Perhaps the most intriguing initiatives to emerge from Google I/O are Android Open Accessory, a specification that allows developers to build hardware accessories that can communicate with Android, an Open Accessory hardware reference design (ADK) based on the open source Arduino system, and Android @ Home, a project that provides Android APIs for interfacing with appliances.
Google's open approach to peripheral hardware development stands in stark contrast to Apple's iOS accessory program, MFi, which requires licensing and approval.
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