It's a no brainer for Apple to provide App Store to host applications from 3rd party software developers, aside it's good for iPhone popularity itself, everyone including Apple will benefit from it.And now, it's most likely Google will also be following Apple's footsteps. During the Google I/O developer conference in San Fransisco, Android's project leader Andy Rubin said; "It would be a great benefit to the Android community to provide a place where people can go to safely and securely download content and where a billing system would allow developers to get paid for their effort. They can add to it. They can remove from it. They make it their own. They can rip out all the Google stuff and put in all Yahoo! stuff."
As you can see it on the Android's sneak-preview screenshot left, there's already a "Market" icon ready (marked with red circle) in Android OS prototype shown at the conference.
But it's too early to know how this Android's Market application will ends up, since Android is an open platform and it's APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) are freely changed according to the will of the handset manufacturers who host it; so we might be seeing different versions of Android's Market in the future. It's going to be hard to compare it head-to-head with iPhone's App Store...Sources are from The Register, via Engadget & CNet News.
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