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The key difference between iTunes App Store for the iPhone and the Android Market for Gphones… control.

Developers can put up anything on Android. The absence of Apple style scrutiny for the Android Market presents obvious upsides and downsides.

The ease of entry for developers sets the stage for both exceptional innovation and tawdry applications to coexist. Too much of the tawdry, and the market may be shunned.

The lack of enforcement for user interface standards is the proverbial double-edged sword. How does Google approach this challenge?

Eric Chu is Google Android’s Mobile Platform Manager:

“We feel that developers should have an open and unobstructed environment to make their content available.”

The HTC Dream G1 which supports Android has a moving target release date. Speculation suggests T-Mobile could release it in the U.S. within the next three weeks.