[...] month we had the idea to run a small opinion poll on the Android Market and found out a strong majority of our audience was happy with Google’s app store. The biggest complaints came from users [...]

wow… I would have figured with all the talking on this site alone about the market that the Disapprove would be a lot more and the Approve a lot less.

you cant do that with these on-line screen scrapers.

Desktop is needed.

This will allow upgrades to the OS without waiting on the network providers to give up their cell bandwidth for the download.

It is also for easy management of the device media(mp3, pictures, etc..)

Also, I would like to buy an app from the desktop and a download happens to the device automatically.

you can do that with these online screen scrapers.

I voted ‘agreed’…

… learnt to live with v1.0 market, v1.6 seems like a dream in comparison! Realistically I find apps off the website and go get them…

I love the android market.

You took the words right out of my mouth. I bought the 1st gen iPhone at launch and it had no apps what so ever and it took the Apple app store about a year to get it’s proverbial sh*t together before it was all that usable. People need to stop their belly aching. The market is progressing along at a nice pace. It caters to many devices with different specs and carriers so there are technical issues that will require time to solve.

I agree, however, this is a vicious circle. What we don’t want is an inflated market place. By inflated I mean we don’t need hundreds of the same apps. If one developer makes a really great twitter app that is considered to be the best, that developer alone can kill the competition. We all know this doesn’t happen exactly, but a new developer trying to get into the market with a new twitter app is going to have a hard time for more reason than discovery. Google can not help this app, only the consumers can. Developers need to make quality apps, and unique apps.

I feel that there are too many people sympathizing with the devs on this. People want to port their iPhone apps to Android and when that doesn’t work, they want to completely walk out on the platform instead of building a new app from the ground up. Many developers complain about fragmentation and having to support many different resolutions, but is that not apart of being a developer? Hell, if the developers stopped supporting older versions of Android maybe that would kick some sense into manufacturers who are still including Android 1.5 in their “hot new” phones.

The biggest problem with all of this is that no one seems to be on the same page. Manufacturers are taking the easy way out by using old Android to re-skin it and call it their own rather than keeping up (which usually fails anyway), Google is out trying to take over the world, and the developers are scurrying around somewhere in the middle. It’s all a mess.

The users might think it is fine, but the developers clearly don’t.
If Android does not get a better system of discoverability, then we might be fighting a loosing battle.

I too am very suprised by this. Personly I found the original market ok, for first attempt. However the 1.6 update is truely adismal, a real step backwards. To me I can’t see any usfull advantages to the end user and one mighty disavantage in the speed of the new market.
The new incarnation fails to load a lot more and when it doea is much slower and very clunky. It pains me to say but if the market was half as friendly as iphone I whould be happy.