News · 26 Jan 2011 · MTW Editorial Team
Unhappy with the current state of the Android market, Google is planning to introduce several improvements this year to help third-party developers sell more applications. There’s no denying that the market is somewhat of a mess right now and far from being on the same level of the iOS or even Windows Phone 7 Marketplace in terms of user experience and especially application discovery (and when I mean applications I’m talking about real genuine great applications which are buried under tons of crap). Here’s what’s apparently coming:
– In-app payments system similar to what’s currently available on iOS.
– Carrier billing: Already available on some carriers all over the world (same for Windows Phone 7) but Google wishes to have more carriers on board.
– Improve user discovery of apps in Market.
– Better social integration and push to developer HTML5 web based apps.
via Forbes
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