Comments on: Motorola Blur First Screenshots Or Android Market Update?

By: mark

mark — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:14:50 +0000

We’ve had this in the UK for months!

By: dsh

dsh — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 02:23:48 +0000

I like the white-on-black style of the standard UI better. I hope this isn’t the color scheme on the Sholes. I’m looking forward to seeing the Sholes since VZW has service at my house but T-Mobile doesn’t.

By: jae

jae — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 23:22:08 +0000

Don’t really care I have the HTC Rom so

By: B.Rose

B.Rose — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:00:13 +0000

Seems thin. My bet is that it’s just the Android Market update. Am dying to see blur, but I doubt this is it.

By: Quentyn K

Quentyn K — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:55:48 +0000

It certainly looks prettier, but aesthetics only isn’t what this update would be, hopefully. A major categorical overhaul to separate themes and home-screen modifications, small toggle apps, etc from true full blown apps. Screenshots that can be uploaded to each app would help some paid developers grab a sale, and please allow other territories to buy apps from the market. Developers have expressed their distaste left and right with how bad they’re doing on the Android market place in comparison to iPhone (64 dollars a day versus 6900 dollars a day, you do the math). While the iphone does have an extremely large amount of users, Android could potentially make a nice return for developers if things were done right. Unfortunately, the open nature of the OS leads everyone to believe that every app ever made should be free, and thus we get the jerks downloading a paid version of their favorite app just to rate it 1-star because he feels he was stabbed in the back (even though the developer left the free version in-tact and took nothing from it. Yes, I’m looking at you Twidroid users). The idea that every app should be free needs to be dissolved into nothingness and people need to start appreciating just how hard these developers work to enable android to do amazing things (I have a full functional FTP client, IRC client, file manager, etc on my phone. I can barely get some of these things to work right on my PC!)

Sorry fo the large rant. I’m just excited for ANY changes that would help clean the market up and get android users more aware about the nice apps that are hidden above the crap.

By: FisherP

FisherP — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 12:59:49 +0000

The market could do with some major updates, like enhanced filtering and a better search function. The search in particular is very poor. For one thing, it doesn’t do nearest matches to a query. An example: typing in Touch Pal returns 0 hits; typing in TouchPal gives the TouchPal app. WTF! And this was made by the master of search engines? Bollocks!

I also agree with a related article in displaying a screensot or image. And what about “Search by:”, e.g. author, within a sub-category?

By: The GMG

The GMG — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 07:41:07 +0000

I don’t have much of a problem with how the market is now but it wouldn’t hurt to clean it up a bit. But yea I’m thinking its a new market update.

By: dylan

dylan — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 06:57:13 +0000

my money is on new market update who is with me eh?