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On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 1:09 PM, Daniel Hilton <daniel.hilton at gmail.com> wrote:
>  Only problem I see with the app shop is that it won't foster a wide
>  development community. If you have the choice between Android (where
>  the tools are free and anyone can develop) versus iphone, from a dev
>  starting out point of view it's hard to say which you'd go with. Apart
>  from the obvious market share / vapourware issues ;)

Apple can afford to charge, just as they can afford to charge for the
iPhone itself. Google don't have that cachet.

>  The other issue with the iphone is that a third party app can't run in
>  the background; so no auto twitter update while your checking mail or
>  surfing the web - it's a one app at a time world.

Oh - that's disappointing.

Tim