To search the Android Market, visit Cyrket!
(Cyrket, SaurikIT, and Jay Freeman have nothing to do with the
website Android Fanatic, despite any wording to the contrary.)
There never was any association and never will be any association. This is not a
previous relationship that has fallen through, this is a relationship that never existed.
You are seeing this notice as Android Fanatic insists upon subsetting Cyrket and placing it on their own page, without even crediting it. The decent thing to do would be to just link to it, but the Android Fanatic developers want to claim that they have a market client, which they don't.
Android Fanatic insists upon subsetting Cyrket and placing it on their own page, without even crediting it. The decent thing to do would be to just link to it, but the Android Fanatic developers want to claim that they have a market client, which they don't.
This lack of citation issue is a general problem with this website. They also recently released a Debian Android Installer which is based on the work of both myself (more information to be found in my article, Debian & Android Together on G1) and other developers on G1-Hackers.
Worse yet, they are trying to make good for this all by placing AdSense ads on the right that target my account, but doing it in a way that A) violates the contract I have with AdSense (you can't load ads into otherwise empty iframes) and B) messes with my statistics (causing Google to believe I'm a poor performing publisher).
This also has served to make people believe that I am a part of the construction of this website, which I am not. I did not ask them to place my advertisements nor did I condone it. I only found out that they had decided to do this by clicking through to their website today from Slashdot (where their Debian Installer was featured).
I have made my intention that they not do this subsetting quite clear to them, but they don't seem to understand, so we are now in a silly technological war over it (I blocked them as a referrer, so they bypassed my referrer checks by getting all their content using their server, so now I've blocked their server).
(Luckily, I have found a feature of AdSense that lets me block their ad requests as well. You should now be seeing ads for Google projects on the right side of this page.)