The Android Market has been a haven for many apps that wouldn’t have been approved in the iTunes App Store, marking the open standards Google (GOOG) touts, and highlighting Apple’s (AAPL) control over its own app marketplace. But Google’s been clamping down on the Android Market lately, most recently shutting down a series of game console emulators from developer Yong Zhang. To add insult to injury, Zhang’s Market developer status has also been revoked, as Engadget reports. His app emulators, including Nesoid, SNesoid and N64oid, enable gamers to manage and run console games on their phones, a movement that helped drive gamer interest in mobile platforms, reviving generational interest in console games.
It may be this redirected attention gamers are placing on mobile devices that’s lead to Google’s new enforcement on the Android Market. A handful of other emulators
