<p>Hi,</p>
<p>You have been severly misinformed.</p>
<p>All you need to install using USB is the free as in speech Google SDK and USB cable that comes with the phone.</p>
<p>Adb is running on all phones and you don't need to be root to install applications.</p>
<p>More important, you can install application by simply downloading an .apk file with the built in browser, assuming you check one checkbox in the GUI settings for security purposes.</p>
<p>And last, Google does not validate apps in the market and the developer fee is one time 25$. Not exactly a big barrierr.</p>
<p>In other words: what you're talking about, Willis^H^HShahar?</p>
<p>Gilad</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-top:0pt">Shachar Shemesh wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite"> I am
much more worried about Android's
lack of friendliness to third party applications (unless they come
through the Market) than I am about the fact it is running a
non-standard environment. </blockquote>
What do you mean by "Android's
lack of friendliness to third party applications (unless they come
through the Market)"?<br>
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I mean that anyone can develop for the android, but if you actually
want to install something on the actual phone, you are up to the mercy
of whoever sold it to you (unless you root it, of course, in which case
even the iPhone is open).<br>
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I am not sure what is required to be able to do "adb install" from a
PC, but it certainly requires that adb be running, possibly also
requires root. Without that, if it's not in the Market (approved by
Google, pending a yearly fee), it doesn't exist.<br>
<br>
Shachar<br>
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Shachar Shemesh
Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd.
<a href="http://www.lingnu.com" target="_blank">http://www.lingnu.com</a>
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