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Originally Posted by ectoplasm
How do you determine "legitimate"? Just curious. We know that Android Market is controlled by Google:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_Market
The Amazon Appstore is obviously controlled by Amazon.
Both are backed up by considerable user feedback, so if malware is involved, we can expect comments posted. I don't know the source of these "alternative" app locations, and I generally don't see user feedback. |
By "legitimate", I mean that they are honest resellers of applications, rather than warez sites. Most I've learned about when trying to buy an app and it wasn't on the Android or Amazon market, so I wrote the developer and they pointed me at these sites. (Lots of stuff not on Amazon because Amazon takes a huge chunk of the receipts - not just the margin, but in the Free App Of The Day, which winds up COSTING a lot of money in support.) See PDASSI, Opera's appstore, AndroidPit,
andappstore/soc.io, GetJar, Handango (an oldie - they were an app store for the Palm, but also a bit unethical in that you have to pay $5 up front if you want to be able to redownload ever),
MobiHand (another old timer), SlideMe (probably the most famous one) and AndroidGear. There are probably many others; those are the ones I know of offhand.