据悉，谷歌公司日前表示，基于手机使用性能和适应性等因素的考虑，谷歌很可能不再面向所有手机平台开发Android应用市场。

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本周四，谷歌手机产品研发总监雨果.巴拉（Hugo Barra）在接受英国媒体paidContent的采访中声称，“（这项决定）主要有一系列的考虑，比如说手机的外形、像素以及GPS功能等因素是否都达标……如果用户的手机性能足够优越，完全可以使用Android应用市场，但我们希望所有运行Android应用市场的手机都能达标。”

这不禁令人大为困惑，就连一向以保守著称的苹果应用商店也已经开始对第三方应用解禁，张开双臂迎接更开放的市场，而素来宽容行事的谷歌Android应用市场为何反而开起了倒车，推出了一些与手机领域通用的技术标准并无二致的规定呢？

据了解，与iPad类似的平板电脑一浪盖一浪地问世，它们的首选操作系统几乎都是Android，这其中以三星Galaxy Tab最为典型。尽管市场事实已经摆在眼前，但谷歌新闻发言人表示，她对三星Galaxy Tab普遍运行Android操作系统一事不予置评。

雨果.巴拉另外表示，谷歌目前致力于对Android手机硬件设备研发的投入，远甚于对Android操作系统的升级和改良；同时告知记者，目前Android应用市场共有8万款应用，有18万名开发商面向该市场投放产品。

另外，谷歌应用市场何时改革，其在线交易系统Google Checkout何时向更多国家和地区开通仍无下文。不过，谷歌透露，不久将推出最新版本的谷歌地图，该应用具有步行指南、街景地图以及可以灵活拖拽的Pegman小人。

谷歌方面还表示，“我们正努力提高Android系统用户的应用体验，为手机用户开发了兼容性测试工具，可以测试该手机配置是否与Android平台兼容，只有通过测试的手机才可以顺利运行Android应用市场……目前已有60款以上的手机通过了这项兼容测试。”

Not All Android Tablets Will Get Android Market 

Google (NSDQ: GOOG) may not allow technology manufacturers to add the Android Market app store to the coming glut of Android-powered tablets, citing usability and compliance concerns.

There are questions over how apps might scale to some of the devices, which are larger than a cell phone, Google’s mobile product development director Hugo Barra told paidContent:UK during a briefing with journalists in London on Thursday.

“It could be any number of things – form factor, the limited number of pixels, does it have a GPS on it?

“We’re concerned that users will get a good experience at the end of the day.

“You can have Android Market if it leads to a good implementation. We have to make sure that every device meets the criteria for a good experience for Android Market.”

In one way, this appears a different approach from Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), which makes unreversioned iPhone applications available to iPad via iTunes Store and simply scales them up for iPad’s larger screen.

In another way, Google laying down markers which tablet makers must meet to hit Android standards is little different from in the phone area – but it seemed significant that Barra was clearly cautioning about this when it comes to tablets.

A wave of iPad-alike tablets is coming from original equipment manufacturers, poewred by Android, the most high-profile of which so far is Samsung’s Galaxy Tab.Google’s spokesperson said she would not comment about Android Market on the that device – but the market is present on it.

Right now, Google is also investing more in to Android mobile development than Android as a desktop or laptop OS, Barra added.

Giving latest stats, Barra said there are now 80,000 apps on Android Market, and 180,000 developers.

It’s still not clear when Android Market reform, including introducing Google Checkout billing to more countries, will happen.

A new version of Google Maps, with walking directions, and Street View, with easy relocating of pegman, were due to be unveiled for Android on Thursday.

Update: Google tells us…

“We are doing a number of things to ensure that the user experience with applications on Android devices is great.

“For example, we have created a Compatibility Test Suite for handset manufacturers. This tests devices on a range of factors to ensure they are compatible with the Android platform. Only devices that pass this test will be allowed access to Android Market.

“Today, there are more than 60 compatible devices in the hands of consumers.”（source：moconews）

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