Until now it was more of a hypothetical possibility, but now Google has made use of it for the first time and remotely deleted an application from users' cell phones. Even if users with a tendency to paranoia are now up in arms, the deletion was justified: the application is a research application with which the possible [...]
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As wired.com reports, 50% of accesses to the Android Market fall on Android 2.1, and around 25% each on Android 1.5 and 1.6 - so either the manufacturers have launched updates for their devices or customers have switched to newer devices. However, this does not make the problem of the segmented market any smaller
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As the AndroLib website has determined, the Android Market now contains over 10,000 applications, a good two thirds of which are free. Google itself does not publish any data on the number of applications (and does not keep the store searchable on the PC), meaning that only estimated figures have been available to date. Apple, with over 60,000 apps
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Applications can now also be purchased in the German Android Market - previously this was only possible in the USA. This gives developers a further incentive to create applications for the G1, and more complex applications are also likely to come onto the market in the near future. The only restriction at present is that only US developers can currently
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Crunchgear.com has the latest news that Google has apparently decided to reinstate tethering apps in the Android Market. However, this change of heart is not without restrictions. According to Crunchgear.com, the terms of use prohibit the tethering apps from being offered on T-Mobile US (which probably also applies to T-Mobile Germany). So apparently only G1 users without T-Mobile as their carrier can
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Google's Android is actually an open operating system for cell phones and other mobile devices. However, the openness ends with the Market. Various tethering applications (which turn an Android phone like the T-Mobile G1 into a Wi-Fi access point) have disappeared from the Android Market. Dailytech.com and Techcrunch.com report that Google took this measure at the insistence of T-Mobile - logical, because
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