Andy Rubins, Director of Mobile Platforms at Google spoke to BusinessWeek about how the market will be different from App Store and some other efforts, which also peddle software for cell phones. Rubin’s message:
“Google won’t impose many of the restrictions Apple developers have been grumbling about. Unlike iPhone aficionados, developers using Android Market will, for example, be able to allow consumers to try their applications for free before they buy them. This may seem like a small thing, but developers name lack of free trial as one of the biggest reasons behind their lukewarm App Store sales”
Google’s Andy Rubin is pledging a different, more loving and respectful relationship with those who would fill his company’s Android Market with selections — and his pockets with royalties. He indicates that the Market will enable free downloadable trials, something that Apple is stubbornly refusing to add. Also an interesting and important info he gave about bandwidth usage of the apps was that Android Market won’t place limits on how much bandwidth a given application may use up, instead apps taking up more than 15MB of bandwidth per user per month to pay a $2 monthly fee. Though it is not clear as to how T-Mobile plans to enforce this.
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