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Google Says 700,000 Applications Available for Android

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Re: Google Says 700,000 Applications Available for Android

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Post by Brentley_11 »

css771 wrote: post #5
27182818284 wrote: post #2

Does anyone have suggestions on how to find quality Android apps? I've saturated the primary sources of the Play store, AppBrain, and to an extent, Subreddits about Android. There are only so many times a person can open up the Play store and See Beautiful Widgets HD and Cut the Rope before the person gets disappointed. This isn't meant to be snarky, I'm genuinely curious what the best ways are to discover Android ap…

I use Android Police's excellent suggestions that come out once every 2 weeks or so. They always have an interesting app or two. Besides that, suggestions on /r/android.

I second the Android Police suggestion. They really do a great job highlighting good android apps.

For anyone curious, here is a recent app roundup they did. http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/10/04/51-best-and-2-wtf-ne...

Re: Google Says 700,000 Applications Available for Android

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Post by Mythbusters »

MichaelApproved wrote: post #14
iDroid wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That is the argument microsoft has been using for its windows phone apps. Quality over quantity

I bet that's a forced decision since their store is much smaller than the others. Everyone will try to find a way to proclaim that they're #1. Eventually, they'll all have tons of apps, both good and bad. So, for me, #1 will go to the app store with the best app discovery service.

Likely. The other way to look at it is that many of the apps that are present in Windows phone app catalog are the ones where Microsoft convinced the app developer to write for the platform specifically. Now if that strategy is used then its obvious that Microsoft would have courted the top quality apps rather than going after poor quality ones.

Re: Google Says 700,000 Applications Available for Android

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Post by mongol »

27182818284 wrote: post #2

Does anyone have suggestions on how to find quality Android apps? I've saturated the primary sources of the Play store, AppBrain, and to an extent, Subreddits about Android. There are only so many times a person can open up the Play store and See Beautiful Widgets HD and Cut the Rope before the person gets disappointed. This isn't meant to be snarky, I'm genuinely curious what the best ways are to discover Android ap…

I usually start with an idea of what I am looking for. When I find something interesting, I look what other users that installed this app also installed. That way I sometimes find something.

Re: Google Says 700,000 Applications Available for Android

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Post by Steko »

cs702 wrote: post #6

Reportedly around two thirds of mobile apps are never even downloaded.[1] And of those that are downloaded, a majority are used fewer than 10 times in total.[2] It's not the number of apps that matters, but the number of apps that people will actually use . In this regard, both the Android and iOS app ecosystem are still relatively immature and poised for considerable growth. -- [1] http://gigaom.com/europe/app-store…

"Reportedly around two thirds of mobile apps are never even downloaded."

False.

"At an event in San Francisco today, Apple CEO Tim Cook said that 90% of the over 700k apps in the App Store are downloaded every month."

http://thenextweb.com/apple/2012/09/12/apples-cook-90-700k-a...

Re: Google Says 700,000 Applications Available for Android

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Post by Steko »

cs702 wrote: post #6

Reportedly around two thirds of mobile apps are never even downloaded.[1] And of those that are downloaded, a majority are used fewer than 10 times in total.[2] It's not the number of apps that matters, but the number of apps that people will actually use . In this regard, both the Android and iOS app ecosystem are still relatively immature and poised for considerable growth. -- [1] http://gigaom.com/europe/app-store…

"Reportedly around two thirds of mobile apps are never even downloaded."

False.

"At an event in San Francisco today, Apple CEO Tim Cook said that 90% of the over 700k apps in the App Store are downloaded every month."

http://thenextweb.com/apple/2012/09/12/apples-cook-90-700k-a...

Re: Google Says 700,000 Applications Available for Android

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Post by [deleted] »

cs702 wrote: post #6

Reportedly around two thirds of mobile apps are never even downloaded.[1] And of those that are downloaded, a majority are used fewer than 10 times in total.[2] It's not the number of apps that matters, but the number of apps that people will actually use . In this regard, both the Android and iOS app ecosystem are still relatively immature and poised for considerable growth. -- [1] http://gigaom.com/europe/app-store…

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Re: Google Says 700,000 Applications Available for Android

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Post by hristov »

27182818284 wrote: post #2

Does anyone have suggestions on how to find quality Android apps? I've saturated the primary sources of the Play store, AppBrain, and to an extent, Subreddits about Android. There are only so many times a person can open up the Play store and See Beautiful Widgets HD and Cut the Rope before the person gets disappointed. This isn't meant to be snarky, I'm genuinely curious what the best ways are to discover Android ap…

I do not know about quality, but you can use appannie.com to find popular and/or money making apps.

Re: Google Says 700,000 Applications Available for Android

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Post by bookwormAT »

27182818284 wrote: post #2

Does anyone have suggestions on how to find quality Android apps? I've saturated the primary sources of the Play store, AppBrain, and to an extent, Subreddits about Android. There are only so many times a person can open up the Play store and See Beautiful Widgets HD and Cut the Rope before the person gets disappointed. This isn't meant to be snarky, I'm genuinely curious what the best ways are to discover Android ap…

"Does anyone have suggestions on how to find quality Android apps?"

I'm using http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_search_engine .

Appstore discovery is currently very much the directory that altavista and yahoo used to be, but good old Google works just fine.

Re: Google Says 700,000 Applications Available for Android

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Post by bookwormAT »

Steko wrote: post #24
cs702 wrote: post #6

Reportedly around two thirds of mobile apps are never even downloaded.[1] And of those that are downloaded, a majority are used fewer than 10 times in total.[2] It's not the number of apps that matters, but the number of apps that people will actually use . In this regard, both the Android and iOS app ecosystem are still relatively immature and poised for considerable growth. -- [1] http://gigaom.com/europe/app-store…

"Reportedly around two thirds of mobile apps are never even downloaded." False. "At an event in San Francisco today, Apple CEO Tim Cook said that 90% of the over 700k apps in the App Store are downloaded every month." http://thenextweb.com/apple/2012/09/12/apples-cook-90-700k-a...

I'm not sure if Apple CEO Tim Cook is the most trust worthy source in this debate. There might be personal interests involved.
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