Welcome Android to the world of useless free and paid apps, brought to you by BIC . Is this a sign that the Android market is growing, useless apps? Should there be a review process or limit on lighter and other useless apps? Tell us your stance and what you think of the market in the comments.
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I’m sure I downloaded this app quite a long time a go???
I’m sure I downloaded this app quite a long time a go???
I’m sure I downloaded this app quite a long time a go???
“Should there be a review process or limit on lighter and other useless apps?”
(1) Why? So another potential amazing app market can be destroyed as it tries to be another iTunes clone?
(2) And you can see how well the iTunes review process works for keeping only quality apps in its store.
If you want a restrictive group of people telling what you can and cannot add onto your phone: you get an iPhone. If you’re a grown up and can decide for yourself what to put on your phone, useless or not: you get an Android-based phone. So, no, there should be no “quality” review process other than making sure it doesn’t hijack your phone or is buggy to the point of affecting base functionality and battery life.
Users NEED an open market-place alternative … otherwise Android-based phones will be as useless after a while as the iPhone becomes … because the apps that would make it more useful and evolve with the user’s expectations and needs either won’t be developed because of fear of it not making it through some arbitrary review process, or the reviewers don’t think it’s the user’s best interest to even have the option of installing it to begin with.
Death to “think different”. Long live “think for yourself”.
(as a note, I’m an iPhone user of 3 years looking to abandon ship as soon as the Nexus One is released that will operate on AT&T’s 3G network)
“Should there be a review process or limit on lighter and other useless apps?”
(1) Why? So another potential amazing app market can be destroyed as it tries to be another iTunes clone?
(2) And you can see how well the iTunes review process works for keeping only quality apps in its store.
If you want a restrictive group of people telling what you can and cannot add onto your phone: you get an iPhone. If you’re a grown up and can decide for yourself what to put on your phone, useless or not: you get an Android-based phone. So, no, there should be no “quality” review process other than making sure it doesn’t hijack your phone or is buggy to the point of affecting base functionality and battery life.
Users NEED an open market-place alternative … otherwise Android-based phones will be as useless after a while as the iPhone becomes … because the apps that would make it more useful and evolve with the user’s expectations and needs either won’t be developed because of fear of it not making it through some arbitrary review process, or the reviewers don’t think it’s the user’s best interest to even have the option of installing it to begin with.
Death to “think different”. Long live “think for yourself”.
(as a note, I’m an iPhone user of 3 years looking to abandon ship as soon as the Nexus One is released that will operate on AT&T’s 3G network)
“Should there be a review process or limit on lighter and other useless apps?”
(1) Why? So another potential amazing app market can be destroyed as it tries to be another iTunes clone?
(2) And you can see how well the iTunes review process works for keeping only quality apps in its store.
If you want a restrictive group of people telling what you can and cannot add onto your phone: you get an iPhone. If you’re a grown up and can decide for yourself what to put on your phone, useless or not: you get an Android-based phone. So, no, there should be no “quality” review process other than making sure it doesn’t hijack your phone or is buggy to the point of affecting base functionality and battery life.
Users NEED an open market-place alternative … otherwise Android-based phones will be as useless after a while as the iPhone becomes … because the apps that would make it more useful and evolve with the user’s expectations and needs either won’t be developed because of fear of it not making it through some arbitrary review process, or the reviewers don’t think it’s the user’s best interest to even have the option of installing it to begin with.
Death to “think different”. Long live “think for yourself”.
(as a note, I’m an iPhone user of 3 years looking to abandon ship as soon as the Nexus One is released that will operate on AT&T’s 3G network)
I always enjoy reading quality articles by an individual who is definately knowledgeable on their chosen subject. I’ll be watching this thread with great interest. Keep up the great work, till next time
I always enjoy reading quality articles by an individual who is definately knowledgeable on their chosen subject. I’ll be watching this thread with great interest. Keep up the great work, till next time
I always enjoy reading quality articles by an individual who is definately knowledgeable on their chosen subject. I’ll be watching this thread with great interest. Keep up the great work, till next time