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Android Market, Google's App Store, Will Not Require Approval For Applications

Great news. Now we all need to get cracking with some cool apps. Note that the article sort of swings and misses in trying to state that the app store for Google will have to be a lot more complicated than that of Apple, I think. Sure Android will have many more handsets to deal with, but hopefully the APIs will be robust enough (when they hit 1.0, they aren't yet) to gracefully degrade if one device doesn't have feature X, and so on.

Yes, developers can still write crappy apps, and they can still cause problems, but the separate process space approach that Android has taken - and with users having full control over what they can add and remove - it should still be pretty stable, even with shitty apps (notice it's shitty, remove it, it can't kill the platform - it gets a force quit if over a threshold of resources, etc). Users with control, a platform that separates processes and keeps things secure, and a truly open market (with transparency, ratings, popularity, etc) should do the trick just fine - no further complication.