Android Market starting to take off in a big way; Filtering options are needed!
By Dusan Belic on Tuesday, March 24th, 2009 at 10:23 AM PST In Android, Applications, T-Mobile
The inclusion of paid apps to the Android Market seemed like a great move by Google (NSDQ: GOOG), as users have started downloading apps and games like crazy.
Here are some cool stats that are coming from T-Mobile (NYSE: DT):
- At the moment, there are about 2,300 apps available in the Market. Third of those are not free and are included in the catalog during the last month or so.
- On average, each G1 user has grabbed 40 apps.
- More than 80% of T-Mobile G1 users surf the web on their phone every day!
However, according to T-Mobile’s CTO, Cole Brodman, Android Market needs refining. He pointed to YouTube as a good example of how to cruise for relevant content, adding that “more intuitive filtering options” are needed so that users can get to the applications they want with minimum fuss.
Personally I haven’t used Android Market and can’t comment much on the subject. However, I’m eager to hear your experiences? How would you improve it? Comments form is all yours…
[Via: PocketGamer.co.uk]
There needs to a better filtering system. Especially a list of the top apps like there is on the iPhone app store, Android Market has a popular list but it doesn’t update itself enough and apps that were there back when the phone came out are basically the same programs that are there now. Its good as it is now but when even more programs start coming in its going to need some work.
There needs to definitely needs to be better filtering like showing popular apps by day, week, month, year, all time. This will give users a better view of newer apps and show whats popular right now. I have to agree with Josh The current popular list seems to be very static…
I actually disagree. I have to say that it is much easier to find apps on the Android Market because it is easier to search on the G1 rather than on the iPhone… also, AppStore is flooded with carbon-copy applications that don’t make it easy.