Android Market Aims to Become Number One App Store: App Size Limit Increased, Top Charts, Phone Blacklisting and More..
These new updates are pretty thoughtful, and should help developers most of all. Often apps get bad ratings just because users downloaded them to phones they weren't meant to work on; now, developers will be able to blacklist phones to keep this from happening.
"Top" lists and "Editor's Choice" make it easier to wade through the junk. Expansion of the Market to new countries makes the entire enterprise more lucrative. Finally, the expansion of size limits is the biggest news of all. With GBs instead of MBs to work with, developers will be able to craft beautiful apps that take full advantage of newer phones' increased processing powers and screen resolutions.
All in all, these are huge updates! Not only do they address quality control across all apps, but they also expand the reach of the Android Market.
Let's see how far the Market goes in the next few months!
















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Is this update live?