Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Company offers rent games for Android by 25 cents a day


 The app store of Google offers thousands of programs, some of them free and some paid. Some vendors offer free versions of applications, but often they advertise or cut some features. This is good for the user, who can test a program before downloading, but if games just gives the feeling of being incomplete.


The American operator T-Mobile will try to solve this problem. In a partnership with WildTangent, the carrier will offer Android phones in their rent games per day. Paying 25 cents, users can test a game to see if it is good even before paying the full price. There will also be a subscription model, which should have plans from 40 to 10 dollars per month and will allow the daily rent of a number of games.

Meanwhile T-Mobile plans to offer this service to a first group of customers, to test whether it really works. Depending on his success, the program will be expanded to more users and also to the tablets offered by the operator.

The question is whether Google will approve this new business model or trying to somehow prohibit the rental application. After all, the boss still on Android is Google.