Comments on: Android Market Update: Screenshots Imminent! [UPDATED]

By: Dan Fryling

Dan Fryling — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 04:31:50 +0000

The market needs to show the date of the apps so you can figure out what apps you have already looked at. It is hard to remember how far back I have to go, so I don’t miss someting new.

By: ERic

ERic — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 02:47:01 +0000

Am i the only one who notices the new sections are now i the market? Ex… comics/theams?

By: Dennis

Dennis — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:52:45 +0000

Cro-
Of course it could be a different phone, but the wallpaper in the video is on the myTouch.

By: kay213

kay213 — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:10:17 +0000

No one cares if you posted a video on youtube.

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:25:43 +0000

So Doughnut has screen lag too. At least they showed it in the demonstration unlike the Hero videos.

By: Martin

Martin — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 12:25:42 +0000

I’m also hoping for Donut soon…

By: FxN

FxN — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 10:43:42 +0000

Hmm disappointed they are not adding better sorting such as alphabetical sorting etc grrr

By: Johnny Awkward

Johnny Awkward — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 08:00:21 +0000

Of course the images won’t show on the device yet – the current Android Market wasn’t written to show images. You’ll have to wait for Android 1.6. The big question is – what will be in Android 1.6? Other than a new market and a visual refresh (looks like they’re going with white instead of black this time).

By: Tomi

Tomi — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 06:59:32 +0000

Better Market is definately good news.

However, I’m disappointed that only a single new country was added to the list of countries where apps can be sold, Italy.

I’m located in Finland and I can’t sell apps yet. This is terribly because I might have something to sell soon.

By: Cro

Cro — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 06:05:53 +0000

What phone is this in the demo?

By: Georges

Georges — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 05:03:52 +0000

While I like the new look, this doesn’t go in the direction I wish.
What I most frequently want to do is browse for apps, with no specific type/theme in mind. I just want to discover “cool” stuff, things I never heard about, not have more restrictive categories. I never use them, as I’d have time to browse too many categories, which is a pain.
What I need are filters. Here are the things I want to be able to NOT see:

- apps only provided in languages I don’t know. This is becoming more and more of a problem on Market, with more and more apps in Chinese/Asian languages, or in European languages I don’t know. I want to be able to see only apps in English/French/German. Also think about people who can’t read English: it has to be trivial for them to never see English only apps… Brutal, but that’s the experience I’d expect. There are tons of ebooks too.

- apps with irrelevant local contents. I don’t want to see all these maps of places that are irrelevant to my current location. I don’t want the metro map of London to ever appear, or at least, I should be able to filter out everything further than 100 miles away from my current location. Conversely, the day I take the plane and land in NY, I want the NY metro maps to appear right away with all NY specific content apps. Other example: TV guides. Do I care about German/Swedish/UK TV guides? These all exist on Android market in 2 versions (lite & full)… As I live in the US, I couldn’t care less. And vice-versa. Local content is only ever relevant to a minority of people, as only a minority of users live in or around that location/country.

- apps from “bad” authors. There are way too many publishers that make 10s or 100s of apps that are all crappy, in the same spirit. Like the “Celebrity XXX sound/pics pack” apps, and the like, that change ringtones and/or wallpapers and the like according to a theme. They build 10s of these. Other example: I heard Apple banned an Indian app developer who authored over 800 apps, all of dubious interest. Rather than have this guy be banned (which is always unpopular), we could better let users decide for themselves and maybe let the developers know how often they’ve been filtered out permanently.

- low ratings: I often don’t even bother with an app with less than 3 stars.

Please improve market: this is where the value of the platform is built, yet, the app itself is not too good… :-(

By: grimdeath

grimdeath — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 03:52:31 +0000

oh forgot to ask…is there a dedicated spot for update notes now? they REALLY need that…having to share the product description now is so lame.

By: grimdeath

grimdeath — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 03:51:01 +0000

very cool, cant wait for this. I feel like I skip over so many programs because I have no idea what I am actually getting, screenshots should really help. I also like the new lighter theme.

btw is that an official donut logo on the video? very funny

By: SK

SK — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 03:25:46 +0000

It would suck big time if this isn’t released for the G1. There is no reason they can’t update the market app separately!

By: Quiksand

Quiksand — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 02:29:37 +0000

Donut? Old News. Old old.New market is nice. Now that Sprint HERO ROM will look NICE on my G1! maybe a little easier to work with then some of the other HERO Roms?!!! when HERO 2.0 DROPS Start happening things will be sweet. I just hope I can Skin the market back to Black.. White is just too bright