Android users are idiots with a beautiful phone that’s of no good use
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I’m an Android user and a proud one. No, I’m no anti iPhone or anti Mac either, but I believe in imperfection and an iPhone is too perfect and closed for me, hence I prefer an Android which is open and more “me”. Its like preferring Firefox over Safari. That’s it. 
But an Android user is not likely to be as happy and satisfied as an iPhone user in more than one ways. There are several crippling factors for the Android that’s slowing down the market growth in an alarming rate, and what’s more alarming is that on the Android platform you don’t see the enthusiasm like any other successful open-source environment like Linux, or Firefox. The energy is depressingly missing. Why – you may ask.
Here’s why !
The Android market sucks & is broken !
At least when compared to the iPhone store. If you’re outside the US, then you’re almost doomed. The reason is that there is no market at all, so to say. You can get a bunch of free apps but that’s it. I haven’t found any direct, easily accessible method to buy apps from the Android market – if at all it was supposed to be available. Today, the Android market is nothing but a couple of free apps, with no categorization, no search function and virtually a broken store.
You can neither search for apps, nor download them from any site, except a few developer sites, which you don’t necessarily need to know about.
To me, this is one big crippling factor. And a major one because this whole thing is supposed to be open source, and technically nothing is open on the market except a couple (les than what you can count on your fingers) of crap apps.
And the plight of Android app developers is no different. There is no market outside the US, there is no where you can submit an app to, and there is no way to track the app performance etc etc. Apple on the other hand, does a great job at the store, enabling all the above mentioned things and even beyond. It is their USP and unless Android can do something close to or similar to the Apple app store, the Android market is taking the ride downside. At least outside the US.
i first planned to buy android phone, but it seems costly i go with samsung,, i heard lots of good things about android,, i really don’t have any idea weather to believe on what you say because daily there are lots of articles about android is big blogs like techcrunch and lots of mobiles companies started using android as their OS,,, even toshiba going to release a notebook with andorid os,, and also android is very new to market, it will take some time
I am an Android user too. The two reason I will not switch to iPhone are : I love Verison, and iPhone doesn’t allow tethering for free
My project was based on Android platform. It’s a fine platform, better than Symbian…. I am not sure about apple, but Google did spend a lot of money in providing prizes for android app development.
Technically speaking, since I have went through the working of Android APK, it’s a great platform with lots of opportunities. You just need to give it time to evolve
I can’t agree more. I have the first Android phone T-mobile G1. I won’t say the phone is sucks, but the applications are lame and the games are the ones you play on super nintendo.
Thanks you for this. I work out of the country often and would not want to be out of touch.
I don’t know which phone do you have but I bought Samsung Galaxy S i9000 recently and the “App Market” which was preloaded provides Search feature, categorized listing. And you can easily filter out Paid and free apps.
What more! Games and Apps have been separated for easy navigation.
Other things, I will not comment more because it would be too early for me being a naive user. Still, the issue mentioned in this article was “App store” , I expressed what I felt about it.
i had iphones all my life… i buy the Htc Desire and now i see th Linux power
that no phone have… android & desire s the best phone in the earth till now