Reasons #2, #3, and #4 why I own a Droid

[drwex]

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2010/03/15/Joining-Google

Tim Bray puts it better than I have - Apple's vision of how people should behave in their iPhone universe is sanitized, closed, privatized, and tightly controlled. It gives me hives. Google's no saint, but at least for now anyone can put any app they like in the Android store without pre-approval, sell that app anywhere else, and even show people pictures of naughty things on their apps. Anyone can build hardware and run the OS on it. Apple is the new Disney?

(h/t to boingboing for the original pointer)

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[mangosteen]

Apple is the new Disney?

Disney bought Pixar. Your call.

That they did

[drwex]

and check your email...

[srakkt.livejournal.com]

And hell, you're not just limited to apps from the marketplace; *.apk FTW.

?

[drwex]

what's *.apk?

Re: ?

[srakkt.livejournal.com]

.apk is the extention for Android PacKages; it's the file format in which apps are delivered, and frequently useful apps that are not actually in the marketplace are distributed in such a format. The Android Scripting Environment, for instance, isn't available in the market, but the project is hosted up on code.google.com and available for installation as an APK.