One major reason the T-Mobile G1 seems to be lacking in popularity is down to the lack of applications that are available to download.
The T-Mobile phone network have gone to great lengths to promote the G1 yet applications so far have not been in the spotlight.
Apples IPhone has over 10,000 applications available to download and are easy to download through the IStore and most of them you will need to pay for.
Some of the applications that are in the IStore are quite gimmicky like the pint of carling that empties when you tip your IPhone to one side or even been able to get the bible which even Vatican City has commented on.
In November 08 Apple claimed more than 300 million downloads for applications, so it proves people don’t mind paying for good or novelty applications for their Mobile Phones
Developers will get to keep 70% of the software fees and Google will take the other 30%. If your application goes viral over the web then you could see a very nice profit as a developer. So I would be expecting to see a flurry of applications been released in the hope of a bit of money making
The USA and UK will be the first to see the priced applications followed by France and Italy and slowly spreading across the marketplace.
Since the G1 is the first mobile phone to use the android software expect more to follow in this trend increasing the number of applications tenfold.