Death Match: Google Android Marketplace VS Apple App Store

We mobile phone users are demanding swines, expecting to be able to do everything on our handsets, from finding the local pub to playing Tetris. That’s where mobile apps come in. Apple kick-started the app experience with the original iPhone . Downloading features to your mobile was hardly new, but the user-friendly Apple App Store and the vast range of software it offered, made it feel like a revolution.   Now, though, it faces a serious challenge from Google’s Android Marketplace. Currently only available on the T-Mobile G1 , the open-source Android platform has the potential to benefit a wide range of handsets – it was developed by the Open Handset Alliance which includes big names such as Sony Ericsson and Vodafone. Can Google’s open-source upstart upset the Apple bandwagon? Read on… Death Match One: Choice Google Android Marketplace With 105 free games and 400 free applications split over 14 categories, the Marketplace is no ... (link)