Android users are idiots with a beautiful phone that’s of no good use

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.

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