Tag archive: Eric Chu

Google has a bad case of App Store envy. At the Inside Social Apps conference in San Francisco yesterday afternoon, Google's Eric Chu was confronted by a mobile game developer and acknowledged that Google is “not happy” with the number of paid apps being downloaded on the Android Market. Chu, the Android platform group manager, told the developer that Google is working on ways to improve the market in 2011 by improving… Read More

Google’s utopian-style Android Market, where everything is currently free, is about to get an infusion of capitalism. According to a new e-mail sent to Android developers, the marketplace will begin its march toward maturity (and profits for developers) in early 2009. According to Android platform manager Eric Chu, Google hopes to begin rolling out payment systems to support paid Android applications within the first quarter… Read More

As the DVD format wars continue to unravel, the current theme seems to be telling us that the gaming and computing industries will continue to support the Blu-ray storage format while Hollywood pushes ahead with support for HD DVD on the home video side. “Blu-ray Disc offers a compelling, interactive entertainment and gaming platform that leaps substantially past current DVD standards,” said Eric Chu, director, consumer and… Read More