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The Android marked (functionality and usability) is not great. Hopefully Google know this and is working on a better way. Also, don't forget that of the many Android devices sold, not all have access to paid apps. I had to root my phone and stuff to be able to buy software for it.

The market is getting a huge makeover in future updates. Google the new android market and there are some screen shoots

Forgte about Market Paid Apps

Google and HTC have Remove Google Market from Indian HTC Magic

This is cruel Step and This looks google thinking about India as 3rd World Country. ???????????????

I think you mean to say, you don't have paid apps in India. It's the same in many other counties as well, it has nothing to do with India being a 3'rd world country or not. Paid apps is AFAIK only available in US, Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, France, and Spain. Nothing for Canada, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Italy etc.

"Larva has two games on the top paid apps list with Battle for Mars in fifth and RetroDefense at 12th place"

What does "top" mean? Is it best or most popular or what?

And that's only one of hundreds of developers. Did anyone ask any other developers about their sales?

It seems that the market is all gloom and doom based on one developer. At least, that's my impression of the article.

I have faith that the android market will be successful the apple market took a while to kick off. Once some better "worth the money" apps come out the market will blow up like SOulja boy 2 summers ago.

There are 10 times as many iPhone Apps as Android Apps available in their respective market.

Well, the iPhone has been out since June 2007 with over 20 million sales.

In the US, there are only 2 Android phones out from 1 carrier. And Android's been out less than a year.


I'm pretty sure as the Android user base grows, so will market share. There are a lot of Android phones in the pipeline. Right now, we're pretty much early adopters, so I wouldn't base the future of Android apps on current markets. This May article predicted a 900% increase in Android phone sales this year: http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/05...yitcs_android/

Honestly, either Android will get more popular, and the apps will sell better, or it won't sell, and it'll be between Palm and Apple, in which case Apps are screwed.

Android does have the advantage of not being specific to any manufacturer, so my guess is, it'll continue to grow.

http://engmobdev.weblogsinc.com/2009...ut-and-beyond/

pics of the new market

no he actually means his phone doesnt have a market. i heard about india not having a market at all

the market needs a serious makeover!

1.needs a better search feature
2.needs screen shots for every app
3.better organizing

those are the only 3 i can think of right now

The cause of the slow sales in the Android Market is obvious. Lack of space to save apps on the phones!! As soon as Google allows downloading to the SD card, Market sales will increase.

I know making only about $1800 a month from something you made is just horrible money isnt it? Haha Whiny like Brett Favre!

The internal memory is nearly full, so I couldn't can't buy more apps.

"#5 most popular paid game" isn't saying much. I went to the games section, sorted by most downloaded and had to scroll through a few hundred more popular games in order to find "Battle for Mars," which was in fact the fifth paid one when sorted by popularity.

So the takeaway is that there are lots of free games to compete with.

Android market is not the only source of apps for android, this may contribute to the lack of revenue from the market or the incomplete revenue statistics.

30 million iphones/ipod touch
5 million android phones, u just wait, cus if this is with this small amount.. boy oh boy will the markets explode once a billion diff companys and brand of phones come out.. u just wait..

interesting, the only thing i don't understand is how the market looks different on parts of donut and eclair as mentioned. i could see the ui changing from one version to the next. but the guts of the market afaik are not inside our phones...

which includes searching and screenshots and general organization...
and those are the things that need to improve, the ui is fine imo.

the man is correct %100

Am a newbie on andriod market,but I like the way you can download on the phone.
But for paying for item.
They should provide screen shoots of the item before buy.
They should provide better choice of paying i.e paypal, visa, or phone credit etc.
Installing apps on SD card than phone RAM
FYI :
http://palsnaija.com/forum/index.php/topic,296.0.html

I currently live in the Dominican Republic and so i have of course an unlocked G1, and i have access to the Market but only free applications,so app that i have purchased, have been through Slide Sam. So it will be nice to have the capability to purchase through Market and with PayPal option.

i think it would be silly to expect iPhone level sales on the Android platform considering the install base is so vastly different at this point.

Another factor may be the cost of entry. For most people, it's WAY CHEAPER to get an Android phone vs. an iPhone(considering hardware + service).. so Android phones, at the moment, seem to have a higher % of teens(who don't have CC's) using them.

Skatturbrain: making $1800 a month would be nice for one or two guys- as a side project. But I'm guessing the developer being discussed is a handful of guys trying to do this as their main source of income.

I phone much?
:/
Me < Disappointed.

people are forgetting that one of the main reasons for this is the limited space and being not able to install apps on the SD card, google should fix this asap or this going to hurt them real bad.
As for the 2nd reason, is the payment method, it seems like most people dont like google-checkout, yet i havent tried it yet (since i dont live in the u.s and cant buy apps) therefore should provide alternatives such as paypal or credit cards

Android 1.6(Donut) market vid. http://phandroid.com/2009/09/03/andr...hots-imminent/

oooohhhhhh nice... that looks good now if they just improved the search... i wonder how they are going to roll this one out?

I think there will be some search improvements as well, they'll probably roll it out as a minor ota most likely before the rest of 1.6(Donut).

i like it, it looks a little iphone-ish but it looks good

you cant take this article too seriously:
1) its just one developer, not a consensus of a mass of developers. for all we know, someone has already made a million in downloads.

2) i cant tell you how many free and try before u buy apps i have downloaded.. if its free (at least at first) im very willing to give it a try. if its cost up front for an unknown name/programmer/app, my willingness drops exponentially to potentially toss money out the door. you want more dl and attachment? throw out a free trial and get us hooked. we have nothing else to go on but user reviews, and one or 2, 1 star reviews is more than enough to not justify the chance... sorry.

3) right now android is limited to 2 phones on the #4 carrier in america. its not like you have iphone/blackberry sized sales numbers. this time next year it looks like there will be 2 or 3 android phones on every carrier if not more. quit bitching. 1800 a month now will prob be 4k a month next year without lifting a finger.

4) if you only have 2 apps and are making 1800 a month, then pop out 4 apps, thats 3600 a month if sales are the same.. see how that works?

5) maybe try changing your description to make it more interesting, and thus more likely to have a purchase... since again, you dont seem to have a free trial, so we only have your discription and user discriptions to go on.

I have never seen these apps that this guy mentions, and I've purchased at least 5 apps in the last month.

I must say though, I only purchase apps that have free (usable) demos, and typically only if they useful.

Considering the poor quality network t-mobile has, its not surprising the apps are down.
Hard to have apps with the lack of 3g in many areas and just plain poor phone coverage in many more areas. While I like my phone, the apps and the "openness" of the phone, Ill be moing to another carrier as soon as my contract is up. I hope other carriers have android phones but if not then so be it. I need good reliable phone servers and usable data service as well as a good phone. I only have a good phone with my g1 now.