DailyBlogr - Android users are idiots with a beautiful phone thats of no good use

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Im an Android user and a proud one. No, Im 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. Thats it. http://www.dailybloggr.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/androidmarket.png

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 thats slowing down the market growth in an alarming rate, and whats more alarming is that on the Android platform you dont see the enthusiasm like any other successful open-source environment like Linux, or Firefox. The energy is depressingly missing. Why you may ask.

Heres why !

The Android market sucks & is broken !

At least when compared to the iPhone store. If youre outside the US, then youre almost doomed. The reason is that there is no market at all, so to say. You can get a bunch of free apps but thats it. I havent 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 dont 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.

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