Comments on: How Google Can (and Must) Fix the Android Market Experience

By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 17:46:21 +0000

I agree. Google MUST polish up the Marketplace. The biggest complaint I’ve heard is that there’s no way for a user to filter apps, especially adult-themed apps, from search. This would be a BIG plus for parents wanting to give their child an Android powered phone for the holidays.

By: zunguri

zunguri — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 07:23:09 +0000

The Apple fanboys are funny (as is the lone Google fanboy) with the party line positions.

I’d like to hear more about what the rewrite of AM will be.

By: dotster

dotster — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 02:32:26 +0000

I should also mention that I despise the idea of being locked down into one Market funnel such as iTunes.

Try http://www.dazzboard.com for anyone who’s looking to sync apps.

By: dotster

dotster — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 02:27:43 +0000

I think the Market app definitely needs more work but the thing I currently love about Android is that one very powerful checkbox in the Settings to enable non-Market apps.

I can do a Google search on my laptop and find an open source project in code.google.com or directly land on a vendors website that is hosting an APK file directly.

Some repository sites even just scrap the real data of the Market app and link to the apps via a QR barcode.

I wish there was a more unified way to get these results in one spot though, and to automate updating non-Market apps.

By: Jeremy Toeman

Jeremy Toeman — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:24:42 +0000

@Avi – I understand how the variants improve the overall experience of a given device, but they still cause confusion in device design/apps/etc

@c0up @ANkh – my device runs 1.5, still an official release…

@Keith – so you explicitly disagree with the points raised in the article, or just the title???

@john schneider – I don’t disagree…

By: john schneider

john schneider — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:09:44 +0000

Sorry, android market place is just plain bad, the only path to success is to copy Apples iTunes exactly. It works, it’s pretty easy to use, you can find stuff, it’s pretty user friendly and most important, its accepted and trusted. Sometimes just going with the de facto standard and making it a standard is the correct path

By: C. Enrique Ortiz

C. Enrique Ortiz — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 13:28:20 +0000

Last Sept 09 I wrote an analysis — we reached similar conclusions…

http://weblog.cenriqueortiz.com/mobility/2009/09/06/the-google-app-market-an-analysis/

Cheers,
ceo

By: Alex Popescu

Alex Popescu — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 11:37:26 +0000

I think the most important thing that should be fixed about the Android Market is: **availability**! The Android Market paid apps are available in only 11 countries (the official page: http://market.android.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=138294). I find this extremely frustrating, as it pretty much make the Android phones pretty useless as smart/super phones.
Unfortunately, Google doesn’t seem to care and even if the page is saying that “We’re working hard to add more countries, so please stay tuned!”, the forums are full of complains of this process taking more than 6 months without any results.
I do agree with all you suggestions, but I (even if biased) do consider this limitation to be much more annoying than anything else.