Thread: Archos 5 vs. N900
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BatPenguin is offline BatPenguin
2009-09-17 , 07:58
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Originally Posted by VulcanRidr View Post
Okay, here we go.

The app store model promotes vendor lock-in. You have to buy apps from the vendor. If you look at Archos' app store, which was nominally set up *separately* from the Android app store because many of the standard Android apps are not 800x480, they make you buy codecs to enable hardware that you have already bought.

I prefer the Maemo approach, which is the bulk of the apps being free, with the occasional pay app if you so desire. But the functionality is all there and all free. Yes, some of the pay apps are nominally better. The app store model, on the other hand, promotes an artificial recurring revenue stream.

--vr
Well, after what people have been saying here about Archos's previous products and how locked-down they've been, I suppose I understand being cautious about anything Archos does much, much better. Makes sense.

But to be fair, when I originally asked you about this, it was about "Android following Apple's AppStore model", nothing about how Archos has done it before. As it is now, I'm at least pretty happy with the Android market on the phones. Well, I have the HTC Hero, don't know about other phones but I suppose the market must be similar. Don't know anything about Apple's market really, not very interested in it, but I think the normal Android market is very nice.

But yes, sounds like Archos might have a bad habit of messing up things like that, so we'll see. The 800x480 point by the way might not be an issue as Android 1.6 (coming next month) should support that resolution . But yes, interesting...we'll see how the device is when it's out.