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How about playing Plants Vs. Hey, wanna play Street Fighter 4 over bluetooth with me? Oh wait, you can’t, Android. Zombies? Oh wait, nope, not on Android either. Ah, the joys of uninformed Android users. I know! Let’s play Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater! Oh, oops! never gonna be on Android.Android has a garbage “marketplace” garbage games, and mostly garbage apps. If you don’t think so, you are completely delusional.

I cannot see any information to justify the comment “Not only does Android have significantly more free apps than either the iPhone or iPad”.The percentage of free apps is higher but the iphone market is probably much bigger. If I had a platform with just 4 apps and made 3 of them free I would get 75% free apps which is SIGNIFICANTLY more than either.

Actually, the Android Market has 85,000 apps, while the App Store has 225,000 apps.I would be curious to see app category breakdowns and how those relate to price. For example, are the games roughly the same cost on both platforms, but the App Store developers charge more for the office apps?.

If you’re going to claim “iOS has more apps, but they’re lower quality” you should at least attempt to back it up in some way.Apple at least has some kind of minimum standard for quality before they’ll accept an app, if it has any obvious bugs, or if it’s confusing, then it won’t be allowed in the store.Android has no such system, it accepts all submissions which aren’t malicious and so it seems likely Android would have a higher percentage of crap software than iOS.

In what world does a Porsche cost the same as a Ford and enjoys greater market share?I think the more likely reason is iPhone apps have a higher startup cost. Your reasoning doesn’t make much sense to me.How is the iPhone or iPad more “exclusive” than Android? The phones cost about the same amount and there are actually more iPhones than Android out there. Therefore, obviously, if anyone wants to release an App on the Apple Store, they’ve already sunk $100 in it and therefore will want to charge something to get their money back.The whole “exclusivity” reasoning makes no sense to me. The iOS SDK costs $100 and the Android SDK is free.

That is something lacking in the Android app store. I found that a big problem with the Android app store is that so many of the free apps are utter crap or involve apps of.question copyrighted material (eg: all the ringtone apps). For example, the Facebook app for the iPhone has way more functionality than the Facebook app for Android.To be sure, the Apple app store also has a lot of, but I feel like there is a good system in place to make sure the cream rises to the top. Also, the ranking system isn’t very good and even a lot of the cross-platform apps with the iPhone aren’t as good.

Uh. because control, not innovation.And the iPhone4 is faster than my iPhone 3GS, but I am also under no illusions that this phone is faster than an Android phone.Maybe there is just a third reason that there are less free apps on the Apple App Store? 3. Apple’s camera is improved, but it still isn’t the best on a phone. Heck, I’d like to be able to view Flash content on all my web devices. Why didn’t they opt to utilize one of the many established video conferencing codecs. Those new Android phones aren’t much bigger than the iPhone4 either. Screw the Flash haters – I can’t even run the time waster posted here from this iPad. To switch to any other phone/tablet/computer solution means starting over. The forward facing camera is a gimmik – partly in Apple trying to shove their own conferencing codec. the *almost* best web browsing experience (minus the slower loading, no Flash/Java/etc., and limited cache). Hundreds of dollars invested in apps and media that only work on the Apple devices. We are trapped in the Apple eco-system. Apple is a porche is android is a ford? Come on fanboy. Apple owners are suckers (me included). Apple’s marketing engine has hyped the public to believe that the iPhone is light years ahead of any other smart phone out there.One day I’ll break this damn AT&T contract and free myself. Contrary, I do like those 4in Android screens. I am an owner of an iPhone 4, iPad and my macbook – but I am under no illusions that any of these devices are the “Porche” in the computing world.The iPhone 4 display is cool at first, but in the every day use it makes very little difference.

Less sexy, but more MUSCLE.There are plenty of cheap and cheerful Android phones though — and those were the ones I was referring to with ‘Ford’!. Did you just call me an Apple fanboy.? (I own a second-generation iPod, but that’s it!)Perhaps I should’ve made it clearer — the iPhone would be a Porsche, while the 4-inch Androids would be a Ford Mustang.

Yeah, a lot of junk on Android, but there is a lot of great apps, too. I like Android because the apps are less expensive and I’m usually able to find exactly what I’m looking for. It seems to me that Apple products attract users that don’t want to be concerned with security. there is a bit more security at the very least with the Apple apps than with Android apps. Apple apps being more expensive isn’t all that surprising.

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