....the current concept in use. I'm not 100% against such stores, if they would be more open (in terms of access from countries and also what type of software they restrict), also in terms of payment methods, and would let you download backups of your purchases etc. etc. Let's see how Make-Play-Live will handle...


EDIT: i was in particular "hurt" by the HP webOS catalog. They said that in terms of having access to all applications (because developers too often don't publish to other sites, for example for Germany) you have to use the US store. Nice. Everything's there. But i CAN'T PAY. At least not without using a US-based card with US billing address. No PayPal, no carrier billing for me, nope.

In the end it's mostly the developers that pay the price (i.e. that i won't pay for something) in the end. Seriously, phuck that. Give me an easy means of pay and i will pay. I won't negotiate with developers outside of the store to get access, when it's a) inconvenient (what's the whole purpose of a store then?) and b) HP doesn't even allow you to sell outside of the store if that certain "app" of you is already published there.