A developer of CyanogenMod has suggested the idea to a downloadwinkel to do with apps from the Android Market have been removed. Under more emulators and one-click-root apps would should.
The downloadwinkel should be accessible to all custom rom users, says Koushik Dutta. The money that is earned in the downloadwinkel purchased apps, it can be used on custom roms to develop further, so suggests the developer. Including NES emulators and one-click-root-apps from Android Market removed, while the legal apps. Pirated software would not be in the downloadwinkel for custom roms to come.
Dutta claims that he Amazon has already approached to the Amazon App Store into CyanogenMod, in exchange for a percentage of the revenue. The bookstore is there, as yet, not discussed. It is unclear whether CyanogenMod or other custom roms in the foreseeable future is, indeed, a private downloadwinkel.
CyanogenMod now has more than a million active users, as evidenced by the statistics on the site of the custom rom. The netherlands is an average country; there are, in proportion to the same users as in many other countries. In Sweden and Hungary are the most users of the custom rom. The HTC Desire and the Motorola Defy are the devices that most of the CM feature. On cheaper devices such as the HTC Wildfire, Sony Ericsson Xperia X8 and the ZTE Blade have many users, the CM installed.