Today, at their headquarters in Mountain View, Google held a demonstration to show the honeycomb, the latest version of the operating system Android. After a few demos of the OS itself, Android engineering director Chris Yerga on stage to show a great one: the Android Market Webstore. Yep, the market has hit the web. Finally. And it is already live. Find it here.
Note that until Yerga know, the only way to find and install applications was through the market on your phone. But now, users can simply go to their browser. And it is more homogeneous than something like the iTunes native application, because when you select an application, it can be set up to automatically download your Android device. "There is no son, no synchronization with computers. None of this kind of nonsense. Everything is connected," said Yerga.
There is also a social aspect as users can send links to the market to another. And you can easily share links to applications on Twitter.
The new Web version of the market also has better filters to find applications. And there's a nice device and application manager.
Update: As many have pointed out in comments and on Twitter, while the market itself is live, you can not connect. I just tried that - no luck. So it's more like live-ish.
Update 2: And now, the market seems to be to live fully. You can register and view your application downloads, and manage your account.
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