Cydia For Android

[gorcorps]

i think the fact that Installous was established so quickly within a few months of opening of the App Store is amazing.

I don't condone pirating, but it's amazing we don't have a good system like that on Android...

Don't need a standalone app when there are plenty of made-for-mobile sites you can load up in the browser of your choosing without installing anything. I prefer that way over having to jailbreak and sideload an unofficial app. With Android you just need to enable non-market app installation in the security settings.

What's more amazing is the amount of effort people will put into pirating things that cost a dollar or two...

No kidding. Totaling up everything I've paid for apps I've spent less than $80 over 4 years of having smartphones (both Apple and Android), and that includes a larger premium GPS app purchase being $30 or so on its own. That's about the price of a single collector's edition game at retail prices, or a full priced game and a half. Compared to the money I spend on everything else, phone apps are a drop in the ocean.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Don't need a standalone app when there are plenty of made-for-mobile sites you can load up in the browser of your choosing without installing anything. I prefer that way over having to jailbreak and sideload an unofficial app. With Android you just need to enable non-market app installation in the security settings.

Certainly, but with Installous, have you seen how its an app store effectively? It tells you when your cracked apps are out of date, its downloader is integrated, its a nice solution.

If you don't like that and still like to visit rapidshare through your PC, you're free to do that and then load it to your phone.

I just think what they have is a nice solution that you CAN manage it on your phone. I was surprised that Android doesn't have something similar. I don't want to get too far off track, but this is my general complaint on Android. There's so much development work focused on ROMs and individual device work, that app development is far behind iOS. But I suppose a unified architecture makes even jailbreaking apps so nice to use lol.

 

[Nothinman]

Certainly, but with Installous, have you seen how its an app store effectively? It tells you when your cracked apps are out of date, its downloader is integrated, its a nice solution.

If you don't like that and still like to visit rapidshare through your PC, you're free to do that and then load it to your phone.

I just think what they have is a nice solution that you CAN manage it on your phone. I was surprised that Android doesn't have something similar. I don't want to get too far off track, but this is my general complaint on Android. There's so much development work focused on ROMs and individual device work, that app development is far behind iOS. But I suppose a unified architecture makes even jailbreaking apps so nice to use lol.

You're complaining because there's no app store for pirated apps? Really?

 

[Mr. Pedantic]

Medical apps?

Curious as to what you mean here.

If they're serious medical apps, you'd think that $50 would be a trivial amount to pay. I sure wouldn't take the chance at my health over $50.

Exactly, if it's a real medical app and not just some cheesy heart-rate monitor that uses the camera lens to guess at your bpm I don't see how $50 is an unreasonable price.

Not apps to monitor your health. Medical references. They're relatively cheap (compared to the cost of things like actual paper textbooks and things like Uptodate) but they're still pretty expensive. One example:

http://www.epocrates.com/mobile/android

Even for what it offers, US$200 a year is way too much. Especially when things like Medscape and Wikipedia offer the same kind of information...for free.

Which means its okay to pirate them?

Not sure if you're trolling, or if this is the meaning you actually got from my post.