Google "not happy" with slow Android app sales

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AppleInsider | Google "not happy" with slow Android app sales
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@ That AppleInsider article absolutely nails the problem us devs face with Android. 10%-30% the downloads of iOS
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Days after Apple celebrate the 10 billionth apps downloaded, Googel says they "plan" to fix up Android Marketplace. They will have a hard time. Even if they want to "In app purchases", they must fix their checkout services first. "In app purchases" is difficult to get right.

They have 10-30% of the App Store download. It's frightening bad!

A post from asymco on facebook by has the whole story. Here is a part:

The Plan to fix Android app sales

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The overall plan includes creating an in-app payments system like the one Apple created last year as part of iOS 4, enabling developers to sell episodic content or related virtual goods.

Google also hopes to negotiate carrier billing agreements with scores of regional mobile providers, allowing users to buy apps and bill them to their mobile account. Apple doesn't need to do this because the iOS App Store in iTunes can bill users directly in most countries, far more than Google's Android Marketplace.
Wanted: app curator 
Chu also wants to clean up Android Market, saying there is a team tasked with "weeding out apps that violate Android Market’s terms of service," an indication that Google's free-for-all market design is recognized to have serious drawbacks. 
Many of the tens of thousands of apps in Android Market are just ringtones, wallpapers or simplistic "apps" designed just to fill space, a situation that drowns out legitimate developer's work under tons of copyright infringing junkware. 
Android Market has also distributed distractive malware, a problem Google can't catch in advance because it isn't curating its catalog, and instead waiting for fires to erupt so it can put them out. 
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Without elaborating, Chu also commented that Google was "betting on" HTML5 as a way to create apps. Google employees have previously made it clear that the company sees the Java-like core VM of Android as a stepping stone to a future where apps are created in HTML, as soon as web tools can support sophisticated apps. 
That's something that undermines rather than builds confidence in Google's commitment to Android in general. Why should Google bother to create an app store if its future is aimed at web pages? In Google's case, either can be monetized with ads, so there's no reason to build the current Android platform to be anything more than a temporary placeholder. 

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