non market app sites (legal)

[Bang Bang Boom]

are there any legal sites where I download market content?

reason I ask his, I can't find some things on the market... I assume its a compatability issue but if I do it illegally they work on my wildfire...

so if I want to do it legally how can I? or am I going to have to stick with illegals if I want the apps I do?

 

[PhippsyB]

Buying apps from anywhere but the marketplace is pretty much dodgy/illegal territory.

Downloading free apps from anywhere is pretty much fine I think.

I just browse the market using appbrain.com then sync it to my phone. Easy.

 

[Bang Bang Boom]

take for example... skyfire isn't available for the HTC wildfire and won't show up in the market... yet I got it off an illegal site and it works fine... how does that work?

 

[ste1604]

take for example... skyfire isn't available for the HTC wildfire and won't show up in the market... yet I got it off an illegal site and it works fine... how does that work?

tut tut

 

[RyanB]

OP: yes, there are several sites.

Appbrain.com, slideme.org, and androidzoom.com to name a few. I suspect that from one iteration of Android to another is close enough that some stuff will run on a version that maybe the Dev didn't have in mind. Also, from what I could see in the Market, Skyfire's beta is free, so if that's what you have it isn't stolen.

 

[Cyansmoker]

Buying apps from anywhere but the marketplace is pretty much dodgy/illegal territory.

This is an utterly false statement. There is no debate over this.
You can find several alternate stores that are 100% legit and in the clear.
Google even acknowledged their existence and has positive things to say about them.

Eric Schmidt:

[...] multiple Android app markets are a

 

[Szadzik]

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