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Re:What got you here on Apple, won’t get you there on Android by gte910h on Friday April 15, 2011 @02:14PM (#2451497)
So you can almost do that as well on iOS. It just doesn't notify your phone of it until a few days later when you get the charge email and uses the iTunes app to actually auth the purchase.

I see the missing link now, but the article didn't explain that either and still wildly misconstrued the typical install case for people (which is either browse on phone, buy on phone, or find on web, mail to phone, buy on phone). Very few people buy off the phone.

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Re:What got you here on Apple, won’t get you there on Android by vetinari on Friday April 15, 2011 @02:25PM (#2451552)
Take it this way: this allows you tweet (or publish in other way) link to your application, where the prospects can buy it and install it without any fuss. That's the entire point, to make life for both vendors and users easier.
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