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It’s called App Inventer —  and if you fancy yourself an app developer, this could be a breakthrough.  Google and Android are teaming up with a do-it-yourself app creator, that could flood the Android market with new apps.  But is it a good thing?

We’re analyzing reaction to App Inventor from KITV, PC World, LinuxInsider, WNYW, and The Wall Street Journal.

First — context.  Apple has more than 200,000 apps, but keeps tight control over who gets into its app community.  KITV gives the basics on Google App Inventor.

“...which allows non-developers and non-coders to share their ideas with everyone. Unlike the iPhone, Android is an open platform for developers, which means there is no approval process.”

Android has just more than 40,000 apps, but this could open the floodgates.  PC World says, it’s open season in more ways than one.

“Google is already under heavy criticism over how the Android Market is run... Instead of employing gatekeepers to weed out malicious and broken applications in the Android Market, Google relies on crowd-sourced policing such as user reviews and reports to Google when an application misbehaves.”

LinuxInsider says Android will undoubtedly see growth, but at what cost?

“... putting development capabilities in the hands of the masses could dramatically accelerate the growth rate of the Android Market... On the other hand ... the technology's do-it-yourself approach could ‘dumb down’ Android apps and flood the Android Market with inferior offerings.”

But as WNYW and The Wall Street Journal’s Digits says, this isn’t so much for the masses as it is for the classes — that is, the classroom.

“So easy they say, a sixth grader can do it. They’re among the people the software was tested on, sixth graders actually.” (WNYW)

ANALYST: “Google is really focusing on students, and people who have some sort of guidance, educators, that sort of thing. So it is definitely easier than coding your own application, and that’s kind of where they’re focusing.”

HOST: “Easier than rocket science?”

ANALYST: “Right.” (The Wall Street Journal)

So what do you think of App Inventor?  Power to the people?  Or app anarchy?