by John Jorgensen on November 25, 2008
- HTC is projecting to ship 1 million G1 phones during the 2008 calendar year.
- This is up 67% from their prior estimate of 600k units.
- This announcement is puzzling when contrasted with T-Mobile’s previous October announcement that they had already pre-sold 1.5 milion G1s. And this wasn’t counting retail, which was expected to add another 1-2 million units to the total.
- Whatever happened to those numbers?
- I’d be very interested to see how “shipped” is being counted here.
SAI
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by Jason Wilk on November 6, 2008
- Steve Ballmer addressed Android yesterday for the first time, claiming it as non-threatening and financially unsound.
- He feels Google is getting too late a start into the mobile arena, which combined with no revenue model makes it prone to fail.
- He also feels like mobile search will become much more important in the coming years, and carriers may be charging Google to use Android to carry their search on the standard Android deck or UI.
- This sounds like a competitor speaking, and although it makes sense, I have a hard time believeing it.
CG
by John Jorgensen on November 3, 2008
- AndroidBoy is a Nintendo GameBoy emulator that’s officially available in the Android Market app store right now.
- One of the iPhone’s first apps was a similar GameBoy emulator that was never approved by Apple and required a jailbroken phone.
- This is a good example of Google Android’s more liberal, open stance when it comes to apps allowed on their app store versus the iPhone’s.
- Sure, but is this taking it a little too far? While emulators are legal, the games themselves have copyrights. I wouldn’t be surprised if this got canned eventually.
IntoMobile
by David Heyerman on October 27, 2008
- Google just announced today that they’ll be letting app developers add applications to the Android Marketplace from now on.
- Developers must pay a one time $25 registration fee.
- Pay-to-use applications will charge the developers a 30% transaction fee which will go exclusively to carriers and payment processors. Google will not be raking in any transaction fees.
- Free apps have no transaction fee.
Mash, Google
by David Heyerman on October 22, 2008
- Coming along with today’s launch of the T-Mobile G1, Google’s Android market is now open to the public.
- The market has right over fifty apps that users can download at the current moment.
- Quite a small number as compared to Apple’s App Store, launching with around 500 apps.
- It was just reported that Google has trimmed that number of 50 down to only 13 apps.
- Check out jason’s intriguing recent post dealing with skepticism regarding the new G1 here.
Engadget, Mashable
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