Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Google deletes many emulators from Android Market


And with little fanfare, Google started deleting applications considered irregular in its Android Market, an environment that until now was known to have far less rigid rules that the App Store, which his rival Apple's willingness to IOS.


According to the blog Engadget, the programs are being deleted without notice by the web giant, which also breaks are canceling the accounts of developers.

N64oid Android: RIP
The first programs to be mined from the app store's operating system were the little robot N64oid emulators, Ataroid, and Gamboid Snesoid, which were sold in the shop for prices between $ 1.99 and $ 5.99 in addition to PSX4Droid, offered for free. Responsible for running games on the Nintendo N64, Atari, Game Boy, SNES and Playstation 1, technically trial programs also wounded a number of copyright and so were asked to leave the environment.

How to remember the site The Register, in theory developers kicked the Android Market can offer its programs at other stores for Android, as SlideME obscure, but without the same security in payment and information security.

Speaking of Android Market, a research made ​​by the company Dysthymia show that 97% of downloaded programs in the store in April were free, as against 95% recorded in March and that only 96 accounted for programinhas 50 million downloads.