ContributorNetwork - The Android Market is like Apple's App Store, Google-style. It's where you go to buy apps, if you use a smartphone powered by Google's open-source Android operating system instead of an iPhone. You can't choose to buy apps for one kind of phone from the other's store; and if you switch, you can't use your old apps anymore, unless the app's developer wrote it for both kinds of phones.
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