Linked by David Adams on Sat 30th Aug 2008 16:32 UTC
The day after Google announced its answer to Apple's iPhone App store, it has announced the winners of a contest wherein developers win $275,000 or $100,000 for developing a top app for Google's upcoming Android mobile phone OS. To get an idea of where the trend in mobile computing is heading, all of the top ten use location-based data via GPS. Check out the winners.
Permalink for comment 328703
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
Member since:
2007-02-05
Linux has some problems that keeps it from getting really popular. (It's getting better though, I bet Linux will start growing slowly but steady in desktops in a couple of years...)
Anyway. Android seem to be stable, and it's a bit different computers. Macs, and maybe esp. Linx haven't taken over partially because they're not included on a lot of computers. Few people bother with actually installing another OS than the one that came with it. (Or even understand this!)
Same with mobile phones. However, buying a new mobile phone is a a much smaller step than buying a new computer IMHO. Mobiles are cheaper. And besides: people break them all the time, so they need new ones!
Just my cents(or ører to be exact)...