Google is opening the doors of Android Market to developers on Monday, much to the delight of T-Mobile G1 owners (the handset launches here next Thursday and launched in the US yesterday). But this is no App Store for now at least, because all applications will be free until the new year.
Some critics have suggested that savvy developers will hold off on releasing their best wares until January, when developers can sell them (getting a 70% cut for themselves, much like the Apple App Store but without months of waiting for apps to be validated before they go on sale). Another theory is that the feckless hippies at Google just don’t want your money, man. They’re already planning to give the other 30% cut to carriers.
But we suspect that Google bosses have, like the rest of us, been taking business lessons from The Wire’s Baltimore drug dealers. The motto: your first fix is free. So expect countless Android apps, good and bad, this year. Come January you’ll be so hooked you’ll be happy to pay for them.
What do you think Google’s grand plan is? Are they hippies or dealers? And will you be hooked? The comments box is below, you know what to do…
Out 30th Oct | Free on £40 contract | T-Mobile
