Featured: The Quality of Android Market Apps Really is Pathetically Low

[WoZzY]

Featured: The Quality of Android Market Apps Really is Pathetically Low

It seems to be an overly broad statement, but it really is true. No matter how you look at the Android Market, app quality is low. Pathetically low. I’ve not looked at the numbers lately, but the iOS App Store has around 500,000 apps and Android Market is hovering in the 300,000 app range. It’s not even close to that close. The Non-App Apps

I’ve written in the past about the reasons why app store numbers don’t matter. At that time there were nearly 50,000 apps that were fell in the category of a theme, widget, font pack or settings app. Those numbers have grown over time but one thing remains the same; these are all apps that would never see the light of day on the iOS App Store.

Pumpers: Also known as Spam Developers

There are also a lot of developers that release the same app with modified content under many different names in Android Market. I called out developers like Handmark, MyLocalTV and Zumobi in my first post, but I saw a Tweet over the weekend from Android Police that makes my pumper list look like a group of pretenders.
If you look up Green Flame Apps in Android Market you’ll find over 2,000 apps from this one developer that are likely nothing more than Wikipedia entries in an app wrapper. Apple banished what they term as spam developers two years ago, purging all of their crapps in the process. They’re no problem at all on Android Market.

Junk apps and their place in the Market

The other day I wanted to find a remote app to control my Roku streaming media player like the Apple Remote or the DirecTV app on my iPad. I found a couple of really nice options like RokuByte and Roku Remote, but I also found some totally garbage apps like Roku DVP Remote and RokuControl. Functional? Maybe, I didn’t buy either. Acceptable? No. Pathetically low quality apps being sold alongside well designed apps that both function flawlessly and give me exactly what I was looking for.
Don’t limit your search for low quality apps to Roku remotes. Look at Twitter apps, browsers, games, office apps, photo apps or music players. Pick any category and you’ll find few quality apps and lots of garbage filling the results. There are so many garbage apps in Android Market that if I don’t find what I am looking for in the first twenty or so results I stop looking.
Why is this allowed to happen?

Why are there so many quality apps in the iOS App Store and so few in Android Market? Why does Apple curate their App Store to maintain a quality level while Google allows a free-for-all in Android Market? It’s simple; Apple’s vision of the future revolves around native apps and Google sees a future that only involves web apps. Local vs Cloud.
I’m going to do a post on the Apple vs Google strategy later in the week, but Google views Android Market as a placeholder while HTML5 and web apps mature to the point of being able to take the place of native apps on Android

Source:Android Headlines

PLEASE SOUND OFF ON THIS DO YOU THINK GOOGLE SHOULD RAISE THERE STANDARDS FOR MARKET APPS ?????

[Snow02]

You really should cite the source you quoted this from. This looks like you wrote it.

[DroidXDoes4G]

So...what exactly do they call iOS fart apps?
If there are junk apps, don't get them.

You would have to have not used the iOS app store to think that they don't have as many junk apps a android. If not more.

[DroidXDoes4G]

You really should cite the source you quoted this from. This looks like you wrote it.

He did. Its at the top.

[JayR_]

I totally agree with what you have stated about the android market as far as garbage apps..i get so sick of sifting through tons of crap just to find one app that does one simple function...ive never used the apple store so i cant speak for their quality..but if it is indeed how you say it is then i hope google could eliminate some of the android apps as well...good post i was just finding myself irratated with the apps in the android market on a more frequent basis.
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[Snow02]

You really should cite the source you quoted this from. This looks like you wrote it.

He did. Its at the top.

No, that's just a link.

[WoZzY]

you really should cite the source you quoted this from. This looks like you wrote it.

thanks bro i forgot to i usually always do i did put the source in the story thanks snow

[DroidXDoes4G]

You really should cite the source you quoted this from. This looks like you wrote it.

He did. Its at the top.

No, that's just a link.

Oh yea. My bad.


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[CrimsonTide55]

I agree way to much garbage in the market. There should be some kind of standard or filter in place to keep some of the crap out. The advantage of android being an open market can also be a disadvantage..

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[XanRules]

I've been saying this for a while.
Also, some sort of moderation on the comments would be nice.

I hate weeding through spam and "dis ap sux brixt my fone" or people saying Titanium Backup doesn't work when they aren't rooted.