Jim Lynch: Off the Top of My Head…

Erick Schonfeld has a good round up of launch apps for Google’s Android phone.

The apps I use the most come with the device: Gmail, the Web browser, and Google Maps, in that order. The phone also comes with the Amazon MP3 store, which lets you buy songs and download them over the air directly onto the phone. But you can also download apps from the Android Market, which is similar to the iPhone’s App Market. Many of the original apps on the review phones have been scrubbed, and about 50 are supposed to be loaded onto the market for today’s launch.

Right now, I count 40 apps on the market (all of them are free, but paid apps are coming with a 70 percent cut going to developers), and I know of several that are supposed to launch today that have not yet appeared on the phone. But if you are going to get a phone today, here is my list of the top ten apps worth downloading and checking out.

I’m an iPhone guy so I’m not paying too much attention to Android but I will say that I want Apple to have some vigorous competition in the mobile phone space. Right now the iPhone is way out ahead in some ways but I’m hoping that Google will catch up and we will have some serious competition between the two platforms.

Lack of competition breeds stagnation and I want Apple to have to keep innovating so I can get the most out of my iPhone. Google seems to be very serious about Android so let’s hope they keep pushing and light a fire under Apple’s ass.

I’m not sure that Google will be able to replicate the success of the app store but they’d better try as more and more apps pour into the app store each week and developers seem to be making a lot of money.

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