Motorola is preparing its own Android Market, which will be called shop4apps. From Androidandme The first images of it arrive and although it was on the air for a while they have already closed it, it is still in the testing phase.
shop4apps will be accessible both from a mobile phone through an application called MotoAppstore or, and this is a novelty, from a conventional browser on a PC. Although it is accessible from the PC, the applications will have to be downloaded through the mobile terminal and MotoAppstore.
Some of the features of this Motorola Android Market are:
- Possibility of using it both from the mobile phone and from a PC
- MyLocker.- This function allows you to have a download history, which includes the download date, the version, the name of the application
- We can buy applications from the PC browser and add them to the section MyLocker and once the phone runs motoappstore this will download the application set in MyLocker.
- Automatic notification of updates of applications downloaded from shop4apps.
- Ability to redownload and transfer applications to a new phone.
As we see some of the characteristics exist in the current Google's Android Market, but others improve the use of it a lot, such as the function MyLocker and being able to access the Android Market from a PC.
According to some captures that have been obtained from the site it seems that shop4apps It will be available in several countries only, at least initially, these are the United States, Argentina, Brazil and Mexico.
After knowing this news I am left with some unsolved doubts such as, Is this shop4apps depends on Google's Android Market And is it just a Motorola customization? Will the applications that are paid be paid through Google Checkout or will some new way be enabled? If this new market is totally independent of the Google's Android Market and an application is in both markets, can you buy an application in one and then update it through the other?
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I have always preferred the existence of alternatives in everything related to commerce since competition tends to benefit the consumer but if this opening of stores is generalized by alternative operators, manufacturers and carriers, I am seeing 5 or 6 applications installed only from markets and searching one after another until you find the desired application. In part I see good things and bad things in it, we will wait to have them in action to be able to comment more accurately.
What do you think, do you like this multiplication of application markets?
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