I go back and forth on this. Another App Store increases competition but ultimately as an app developer I want to point my users to an apk file for them to install on their mobile phone.<p>We've got a chance here to properly educate users to a new medium - installable applications on mobile devices. Let's not screw it up how we did desktop applications. We're still paying for not properly educating people how to (and more importantly not to) install software (or viruses).<p>I hope Android gets a good permission model that makes it clear exactly what the user is allowing an app to do and hand installation off to good ol' open web.