Android Market Hits 100k Apps, But Can It Compete With Apple

PC World - Google voiced that its mobile applications store Android Market has strike the 100,000 apps miracle , leading competing stores from BlackBerry, Nokia or Palm. However, Android Market is usually the number two app store around: Apple's App Store hosts 3 times as many . If Google wants to grasp up with Apple, then it will have to residence a few Android Market problems many are angry about.

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It took Android Market 20 months to strike 100,000 apps, scarcely two years given the store non-stop for business. Apple, right away raking over 300,000 apps, managed to attain the 100,000 miracle a small bit faster, a just over 16 months . Considering the median time a developer can obtain an app up in the Android Market is 6 mins , compared to at least 4 days is to App Store, because is Android lagging so ample at the back Apple? It's not similar to Google doesn't affirm that it activates more Android phones than Apple does iPhones.

Availability could be one issue. Apple currently allows developers to sell apps by the App Store in roughly 100 countries, whilst Android Market is existing in 46 countries. Out of these 46 countries, people can buy apps usually from 13 (33 countries usually can download giveaway apps). The insufficient of a broader marketplace for developers to sell their apps does not grip the dwindle for Android Market against Apple's gigantic general operations.

Apple's App Store is not the easiest place to uncover apps (if the Genius underline doesn't do it for you), but it can obtain worse with Android Market, where it is tough to differentiate by apps, and you can't arrange by rating or not long ago updated either. On a few versions of the Android Market you don't even obtain screenshots of the focus itself, and the descriptions are paltry (to 325 words).

From a user perspective, Apple creates it simpler to find new apps and arrange by date added, recognition or name, and moreover compiles tip charts for any category. With the Android Market, if you are unaware what you are seeking for, you can obtain mislaid really easily. To tip it off, developers are moreover condemning Google's selection to use the its Checkout service to routine payments from the Android Market (that's because Google is rumoured to work with PayPal now).

Despite still going strong, Android's sincerity could be Android Market's demise. Verizon is working on its own focus store for Android , and Amazon seems to go in the same citation , something that could limit the enlargement of the Android Market in the long run. If Google doesn't fast-track Android Market accessibility and underline improvements, at this pace, it won't grasp up with Apple's App Store any time soon.

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