Tencent Launches an ‘iTunes for Android,’ Gives Google a Syncing Feeling

Just as nature abhors a vacuum, Chinese web companies are amazingly good at filling a niche in the market. And so it follows that Tencent yesterday launched an Android management app that’s a sort of ‘iTunes for Android.’

As Android rockets in popularity in China, there’s obviously a huge hole to be filled by the lack of an Android equivalent of iTunes. That’s what Tencent’s new ‘App Assistant for Android’ aims to be. It’s a Windows app for managing everything about your Android phone over USB or wifi – downloading apps (see picture below), syncing music and other files, transcoding videos, taking Android screenshots, and backing-up your phone.

read more at http://www.penn-olson.com/2011/08/13/tencent-android-assistant/