November 30, 2009

From Om Malik (GigaOm) - Android Developers are not happy with sales proceeds from the Marketplace. Must be a slow news day because this is unnecessary sensationalism.

Notice to developers: If you REMOTELY expected to be rich beyond your dreams building Android apps in the last 9 months you are senile.

The future is going to be much, much brighter for offerings that run on Android 1.5, 1.6, 2.0 and 2.1 - the simple fact that Verizon’s Droid now accounts for 25% of Android Web Traffic within a month of launch should tell you how immature the market was until recently.

So Skyhook Wireless - thank you for doing that survey, with that amazing sampling of 30 dreamers developers - the results this year were obvious - the results next year will be very different.

I think it is a matter of time before we get an ‘Independent Android Review Authority’ established to vet out crappy or incompatible offerings from the good stuff. After all there are 10,000+ apps to sift through making it a very App Store like deluge. There’s an opportunity there for harvesting power, hopefully someone will take the baton.

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