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New Android Market

I read that the new Android Market had tabs for Live Wallpapers..I don't seem to see this? I see a Themes tab...is that just all Wallpapers mixed together?
 
I read there were two new categories; widgets and live wallpaper. I haven't seen either of them (assuming they'd be under applications). Has anyone else seen these?
 
I have mixed feelings about the new 15 minute window. While I really appreciated Google's 24-hour window, I recognize that there is a tremendous chance to abuse it. 24 hours is a long time for a lot of apps, especially games which are really an essential part of ALL of the app markets and probably drive a majority of the revenue.

I would have liked 1-3 hours, though. 15 minutes is fine for certain things like live wallpapers or purpose-specific apps, but there are a lot of categories of apps that you can't even begin to test in 15 minutes. A couple hours would substantially reduce the abuse, but would still let people try-before-you-buy. Guess a lot of developers will just start doing trial versions like the App Store does. It's not so bad.

In any event, 15 minutes is still better than no minutes!
 
Another issue with 15 minutes...how are you to tell if it's a mis-behaver that eats the battery. With knowing I've only got 15 minutes, I guess I'll be reading the pages and pages of comments before I decide to buy an app, where I used to just read the first 20 comments or so. I agree with binary, should be at least a few hours.
 
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