Replied to: Do seperate/proprietary android markets hurt the android platform?

February 8 2012, 12:39pm

I like the concept of multiple app stores, if Android is open source we should have the choice to use an app store not governed by Google. The Android Market is not however open source and not a part of the Android source code [1]. By having separate app stores those who decide to fork Android (eg. Amazon) still have app stores to choose from.This however does have it's downsides as you mentioned, although I haven't encountered any effects as bad as you've described above.1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_Market#Availability_for_developers