Comments on: Did the Android Market Reach 100,000 Apps this Month as Predicted?

By: dedren

dedren — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 19:16:51 +0000

I find it more productive to have idea what I want my phone to do and just go find an app that can do that. It worked well for the iPhone and seems to be working well for my Android phone. As someone mentioned before Appbrain kicks butt for finding and backing up your apps. I am on my second Android phone and used it to get all my apps back within a few minutes. Check out appbrain.com if you like to get a feel for it.

By: ghostofcain

ghostofcain — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:34:07 +0000

first, numbers matter no one touts that the iphone has 1 million (or whatever fatuous number being flouted) quality apps.

second, remove apps with low download rate, will remove quality apps that are only for minority of users.

third, apps with low ratings are not necessarily deserving of these ratings but are sometimes advanced apps being used by naive users.

Granted I feel we need a decent filtering system, like appbrain, but in the short term its numbers of apps that will push the platforms popularity

By: Maj

Maj — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 10:29:13 +0000

and 95% of those apps are quite useless. Most of them are soundboards, wallpapers for hot/sexy Asian girls, half-broken-crappy apps.
I think google needs to step in and remove the following apps:
- crappy apps like the ones we’ve mentioned before
- apps that are broken and are not being updated/supported constantly by the app developer
- apps with very low rating
- apps with low download rate for a long time

By: Bob

Bob — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 05:02:32 +0000

By the year end there will be 1 million android phones activated per day. I think you guys are only looking at high-end releases, you are forgetting players like Huawei, ZTE, Acer who are churning out huge number of android phones. And by year-end, you are going to have Mediatek phones. Mediatek chips powered phone sell around 100 million plus per year as of now. These are major players. Android is going to explode.

By: Jean

Jean — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 02:16:20 +0000

Where are the quality apps?

Those numbers are bollocks! I just want 5.000 top notch apps and I’ll be done.

By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 23:10:30 +0000

I agree with ari-free. Widgets are the way to go. For one, it separates Android from Apple and the iPhone (there’s an app for that.) Widgets are much more useful and easy to use. Cloud computing is also going to be huge as time goes by. There also should be some sort of oversight to prevent malicious apps from being pervasive, as has happened a couple of times already. Though I am not lobbying for anyone to approve/disapprove based on their like, more just on the validity of the app and it’s security. There also needs to be a better way to purchase paid apps. Since I am logged into my Google account anyway, why not have my paypal, or other payment method on file with a secondary password for security. A clearing house to act as an intermediary.

By: copr165

copr165 — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 22:33:10 +0000

I just signed on to Market and just in and had to go all the way to number 8 before I saw one that read ‘Pretty Girls’. Then it was another 17 before I got to ‘Japanese Lady’s’ and after that it was downhill with the porn sites and I mean several. Do that many people download these apps? I myself have many useful apps and they are note porn

By: ari-free

ari-free — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:41:10 +0000

Maybe that’s why the PC doesn’t have a centralized app market.

By: DroidsFTW

DroidsFTW — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:20:13 +0000

The more junk apps it gets, the harder it will be to find a decent app.

By: ari-free

ari-free — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:22:15 +0000

apps that are *just* enhanced websites are stupid but we want more widgets and notifications

By: Lucian Armasu

Lucian Armasu — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:20:42 +0000

They will tout them at Q3 earnings report, and again at Android 3.0 launch, together with how many phones the shipped.

Both should be very impressive numbers. Androd might reach 400,000 units activated per day by the end of the year. This is because of Samsung entering the market, later Dell and LG (high end this time), and of course the new Motorola and HTC phones. And let’s not forget all the tablets launching soon.

By: SteveE

SteveE — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:17:40 +0000

5-6 apps? I count at least 21 on my screens that I use multiple times a day. While I agree that probably half the apps are not useful, I don’t think you are giving enough credit

By: PhoneDog

PhoneDog — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:11:44 +0000

Out of 83,000 only about 3500 are useful, unless you need fart jokes and 15000 wallpaper apps and most people only use 5 to 6 apps on there phone, this is true. those apps that are just enhanced websites will meet there doom with HTML5 or ADOBE hits the market for Android. @mrmojoz – IfAppBrain sorts them out then thanks for the HEADS UP! because searching thru the market sucks BIG NUTS!!!! THat has to be controlled like searches on google.

By: ari-free

ari-free — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:07:51 +0000

the future is HTML5!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfmbZkqORX4
oh wait, it’s not.

By: mrmojoz

mrmojoz — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:04:23 +0000

@Isthmus
Considering there are already so many ways to do this (AppBrain etc), how much is this really affecting you?