Hey, I recently received a HTC Tattoo and I have to say that I love Android it is by far the best mobile os I have tested. The endless supply of awesome apps makes every day with my phone an new experience.Sorry for my wall of text I just wanted to share my experience with the android os. Have a great day and thanks for a flawless blog.

As long as all we do is compare android to iTunes, and live in the iphones shadow, Android will always be the cheaper alternative to the iphone.

The best way to succeed at this sort of thing, in my view, is to stop thinking, “what does the iphone have which we don’t?” like spoilt kids, and instead think,

“What would I want on a smart phone?”

Seriously guys, Apple aren’t wizards, Android just needs to crawl on its belly out of the murky waters of the iphones shadow, and find out what it can evolve into given the chance to breathe on dry land.

I’m with Marcus, but I’ll add Canada to the list of countries that STILL don’t have access to paid apps without using apps like Market Enabler. T-Mo customers are complaining that carrier billing still doesn’t work, wah, at least you can legitimately buy apps.

Of course, the rest of the laundry list of complaints like search (come on Google, your own market app sucks at search?), filtering, recommended apps, group upgrades, etc.

Frankly, if this poll produces results any higher than disappointed, I’ll know it’s fixed.

Oh for god’s sake, another poll now now that a few tmo customers get carrier billing? Bleh, slow news day, me thinks.

The market is way behind IMHO. For example: there’s no bookmark features, no advanced search capabilities, the couple of screenshots helped but should have been implemented from the start, we should have videos of the apps in use as well, maybe the ability to install older versions of apps as well( not so important to me because of backup apps and such), last but not least the ability to download from a web based or desk top app store. Also there should be sponsored/discount downloads sometimes. Google has to stop pussyfootin around if they really want to kill the iphone.

Can anybody explain to me why there are so many countries where the purchase of paid apps is unavailable?
I am living in Singapore and I’ve been waiting for paid apps for over a year now… Nothing.. Its absolutely annoying when ppl talk about great apps that are not available to so many people.

There are many apps I’d like to purchase, but I cant.. Maybe it would help if Google starts allowing paid apps in more countries.. Many Devs complain about slow sales… Wish i could help………

I took Apple a year or so to start paid apps in Singapore.. What take Google so long..

I think the issue is that everyone is comparing the Android Market to the current benchmark (i.e. iTunes) and finding…

1. The iTunes store is accessible via iTunes on your PC/Mac as well as via your iPhone/Touch. This is allows you to perform searches and review content with much less hassle versus having to do it via your phone. My Droid is great, but I wish there was at least a web version of the Android market. The current version is weak.

2. You can only buy apps on the Android Marketplace. iTunes allows you to purchase/download apps, music and video. There is no place that I know off that lets you do that with a Android device (maybe, but not yet noteworthy). Movies/TV shows I’ve downloaded from iTunes won’t play on my Droid.

3. The Android Marketplace’s “hands-off” approach, means that there’s not much QA. Anybody can slap just about anything up there making content searches via phone quite tedious. Compare this to iTunes which is heavily regulated by Apple. There are specific requirements, standards and approval required for anyone wanting to offer an app on iTunes.

iTunes is like the new master-planned shopping center in your neighborhood with the PF Chang’s and Nordstroms. The Android Marketplace is like going to the weekend swap-meet. Which crowd do you think has more $$$?

I wish it was called “More by developer” it is actually called “View more applications” under the “About the developer” title. People miss it because nobody reads the title.

Time to go back to the iphone(just saying). I agree with everyone here and has nex said, no update as yet to get carrier billing on my phone(G1). Taylor, is there some way you could show google android developers this page and its comments on the market?

I strongly disagree that the market is okay.
They need to create a filter for all the junk apps, like the 15000 apps for ringtone photos and cheap crap apps. Id like to be able to filter out certain companies so i dont have to go to an external site just to find one good app after ripping apart the rest of the market.