Google exercises its control over errand Apps on the Android Platform
Google has recently done a deep investigation on the huge amount of applications which are Google Nexus One Unlocked Phone running on Android platform and have found out that two such applications on the Android platform are in violation of the Content policy. Hence, they have used their remote kill option to remove the applications stored on phones.
A look at the Android apps market really makes us wonder how Google is passing so many of these apps, which are largely not even good enough for a re-look. Hence, there is no reason why such apps should be flooding the markets. It is amazing to note that these apps run up numbers to the tune of around 50,000 many of which are of no use.
Google has officially released a statement with respect to these apps. They have said that there were two such apps which were being circulated on the internet. These were developed for research but had a description which was not tending to that fact resulting in people downloading these apps on a large scale. However it is encouraging that no private data was compromised. These apps did not have the rights to access private data. This is why the problem was so seriously dealt with by Google for the benefit of the huge number of Android users in the market.
It has now come to attention that the system used by Unlocked Apple Iphones in registering apps in their iTunes apps store on their mobile devices is perhaps the way to go. This is true as it is a known fact that one really will not find such errand apps on the apps store on Apple’s iTunes.
Google has taken cognizance of this fact and will be looking into such matter. For now Google has killed these apps such that the user’s safety is not really compromised.
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