http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/ Engadget Comments for Android Market gets 9,000 new apps in March, world domination can't be far behind http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/Apr 8th 2010 7:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/Apr 8th 2010 7:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/Apr 8th 2010 7:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/
..and the people try to say that fragmentation will kill Android's app store, make things too difficult on developers and alienate users. Android OS subscribers grew the most in February (Engadget hasn't released any numbers, but their growth was, once again, sexy), surprise, surprise. As they say, "The proof, is in the pudding." And this pudding ain't souring one bit. ]]>Apr 8th 2010 7:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/
For details see here: http://blog.appbrain.com/2010/03/appbrain-launches-automatic-filtering.html]]>Apr 8th 2010 7:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/Apr 8th 2010 7:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/
Really? No one said this...?

IT'S OVER NINE THOUSAAAAAAAAAND!!!!]]>Apr 8th 2010 8:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/Apr 8th 2010 8:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/Apr 8th 2010 8:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/That's a lot of fart apps.]]>Apr 8th 2010 8:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/Apr 8th 2010 9:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/Apr 8th 2010 9:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/WHAT?! NINE THOUSAND?!?!]]>Apr 8th 2010 10:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/
This is not entirely true since you can't have things like alternative keyboards and browsers in the App Store. Subsequently, no keyboard themes or UI tweaks.

*thinks for a second* ...So yeah, there must be a lot more fart apps than I thought. ]]>Apr 8th 2010 10:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/
Over 9000!

Pedobear agrees!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGyKmvQesgs]]>Apr 8th 2010 11:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/http://bit.ly/mikandi-porn-application-best-or-worst]]>Apr 8th 2010 11:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/Apr 8th 2010 1:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/Apr 9th 2010 4:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/Webos (very good OS let down by palm), blackberry (very dated OS),

which leaves iPhone OS, Symbian (very dated OS) to rival Android

]]>Apr 8th 2010 7:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/
Pretty expected.

I wonder who wins, the closed and developer frustrating iPhone OS, the old and outdated Symbian, or the open, modern, easy to develop for, and fast growing Android... Hmm...]]>Apr 8th 2010 7:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/
The only thing outdated about Symbian is its UI. That is being reworked dramatically, and will be quite good. From a functionality perspective, its on par if not beyond the competition.Best of all, it can run for days before a battery needs to be charged, it can run on low specs.

I like Android a lot better than Mobile OSX, but Symbian is hardly dated, just because its been around longer.

]]>Apr 8th 2010 7:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/clearly, you seem to have lost contact with reality. Android is still behind WinMo in terms of marketshare and mindshare (it's still a geek-OS, hardly any average consumers know it). with WP7 Android will look absolutely outdated, especially when it comes to gaming. Being a fanboy you might not have noticed, but you just got told by someone who uses all sorts of products and doesn't hang on to one frakin company.]]>Apr 8th 2010 7:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/
developer frustrating...

talk about generalizing. It sure hasn't stopped Apple from having millions of apps in the App Store. And it doesn't change the fact that devs want to create the next "big thing" for the App Store.]]>Apr 8th 2010 7:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/Apr 8th 2010 7:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/
Windows Mobile slowly being fazed out, by this time next year windows mobile will be finished and thats coming from a person whos got 2 windows mobile devices in front of him, as a geek OS a lot of winmo fanboys have left for Android,

Exclude X-box live Windows Phone 7 is dated
NO Cut, Copy, Paste
NO Memory Cards
NO File Browser
NO Multitasking
NO Sideload apps
NO OEM custimazation and skinning
NO WinMo apps
NO Get any Applications from any website that has apps]]>Apr 8th 2010 7:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/
I 100% agree... Every time I use a windows mobile device or even a windows pc, I always think "if they just changed these 5 thing's it'd be perfect"... and then they do something like release windows 7, still with no support for 2 taskbars for multi-screen users, I'll stick with gnome and iphone]]>Apr 8th 2010 8:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/excluding your top 2 you got the iphone right there and thats a success.]]>Apr 8th 2010 8:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/You talk as if you have started 2-3 companies, saw them grow very fast and sold them. And hence you have a lot of idea of what may happen to the companies -- much more than the guys running those companies. In reality you are a person who finds enough time to comment on the blogs. So in essence you are one of those whose fun we make when you are not around! lol..... People have predicted many things about iPhone OS, Windows Mobile, Windows Phone 7, and Palm OS. I think you can learn from their experience. Keep your feet on the ground. You may fly high and end up being mocked.]]>Apr 8th 2010 8:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/
Symbian^3/4 looks like it will win the 'easy to develop for' crown.]]>Apr 8th 2010 8:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/Apr 8th 2010 9:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/Apr 8th 2010 10:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/What is there to rival? Android is a free OS that Google pays to partners to use. Hell, Google pays Apple 100 million a year to cary Google search. Google pays to play with their one trick pony ass. They are in it only for the ad dollars. They don't do hardware. Android is a gimmick. A deep penetrating gimmick.
And once Google gets that ass tapped in the internet search world you won't see all this, if any, free Google swag.


Wow... Talk about drinking steveis special koolaid!!!! LMAO]]>Apr 8th 2010 11:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/Apr 8th 2010 11:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/Apr 8th 2010 12:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/NO Memory Cards
NO File Browser
NO Multitasking
NO Sideload apps
NO OEM custimazation and skinning
NO WinMo apps
NO Get any Applications from any website that has apps

BTW you mention Copy, Paste - THIS IS WRONG Charlie Kindle already confirmed it will come.
Except the memory cards and exchangeable batteries EVERY THING YOU COMPLAIN ABOUT will be done by Xda-Developers. And that's the point: We are geeks. If you own a WinMo device like I do, Xda-Devs is your second home. And the same people that are into hacking/customizing now complain about..... WHAT?]]>Apr 8th 2010 12:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/
"From a functionality perspective, its on par if not beyond the competition."
Sorry, the competition is no longer WinMo buddy. Symbian is up against tried and true Unix AND Linux. Android and OSX are way beyond it, and always will be at the foundation. The only way they could catch up is to ditch EKA2 for a flavor of the BSD/Linux kernels... and quite frankly WinMo / WinPho is going to have the same troubles, being nowhere near as stable and mature.

"Best of all, it can run for days before a battery needs to be charged, it can run on low specs."
I don't buy smartphones to get something that is underpowered. Really, Linux has been tested to run on more or less every modern CPU architecture... Android could definitely lose some weight and run on lower end / lower power chipsets.]]>Apr 8th 2010 1:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/Apr 8th 2010 7:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/
I'm also glad that the fragmentation argument is starting to look like a load of bullshit.

]]>Apr 8th 2010 7:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/Apr 8th 2010 7:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/Fragmentation may be helping android from a market share point of view even if it isn't helping from a development point of view
but in the long run the fragmentation may bring in more developers which will balance out the fact that it is difficult to develop for every android phone]]>Apr 8th 2010 8:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/Apr 8th 2010 8:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/
Hey,

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't there still a problem with bringing certain applications to all Android devices?

I'm still trying to understand everything about Android before jumping ship, but from what I can tell you can only download applications to the phone itself. Also because their are so many different kinds of hardware running Android, doesn't that mean there IS huge fragmentation?

Again, I'm still trying to learn everything I can about Android so feel free to school my ass.]]>Apr 8th 2010 8:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/Apr 8th 2010 8:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/Apr 8th 2010 10:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/Apr 8th 2010 7:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/Apr 8th 2010 7:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/How on earth would Apple counter it? Android runs on multiple vendor handsets, they are always going to outsell Apple in terms of handsets and therefore there will be more apps, it's pretty easy maths really.

Having said that, what Apple has achieved in the time it has been in the smarthphone market is nothing short of astonishing.
]]>Apr 8th 2010 7:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/
All the android phones combined have not reached the level of the iPhone sales...]]>Apr 8th 2010 7:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/Apr 8th 2010 8:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/android-market-gets-9-000-new-apps-in-march-world-domination-ca/
When I talk about countering this, my thoughts turn to bringing more product differentiation, more reasons to buy an Apple branded device over an Android one.

I think put simply, Android is a threat to the current Apple iPhone and OS version. My hope is that Apple will move their OS and hardware significantly forward as to bring in more product innovation, features and usability. Apple's OS by my own admission, a iPhone user from launch, does now seem creaky. I'm running a 3G and my hope is that now my contract is up with O2, there will be a genuinely good reason to await the 3GS replacement in June/July.]]>Apr 8th 2010 8:22AM