Crap apps?

I don't blame the developers. I blame the crappy market app that doesn't allow us more control over searching and filtering and sorting. You can ONLY sort by popularity and by date? Come on.

 

What it comes down to is that the best way to find good apps is to come to a site like this and talk to peeps.

I'm not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing. Probably some of both.

Filtering and ignore would be nice though

 

While searching for apps can be tedious, the Google App Store encourages developers to contribute (and often). Apparently, the news feed app code could be easily modified for any state, thus making it easy to design an individual app for each state (although if I were adept at coding, I would have tried to make one app that would get the news feed for a state that you enter as a variable). I'd be willing to bet that this kind of redundancy exists in other types of apps also.

Hopefully the coders behind the Market app will make a more refined search engine. Until then, I will try to use as many key words in my search for apps as I can to make it easier. A small price to pay for a store that now has approximately 20,000 apps (according to Wikipedia).

 

it bothers me to the point where i dont even use most of the apps on my hone unless i really have too. if i have my ipod touch with me i use that. the minute i got my phone and typed in espn at the market place and came up with nothing i knew i was in for a bad time. no espn app? are you kidding me? forget trying to find other apps, the app store over there is a whole lot better. Plus you have to worry about if this app is gonna suck the life out of my battery or is it gonna cause lag etc. i shoudnt have to worry about these things, the need to be able to work together and as efficient as the next. the market place is just proof of androids infantcy, there is still a whole lot of growing up that needs to be done

 

No offense meant by this at all, but if you use your ipod touch to do most things, why are you a phone guide on these forums?

 

There are a lot of crap apps out there. I understand that others may legitimately want or need some things that I find useless, but a great many of the apps I scroll through are just generally worthless. I don't like the fact that I have to wade through them to get to the good stuff. A sort or filter by rating and/or number of downloads would be much appreciated.

On a side note, to the above poster - SportsTap is awesome. I've been using it since day one and I love it.

 

Just for the record, I believe that the default sort in the market, "By Popularity," is by number of downloads.

 

I'd pay money for an app that lets me view the Market AND add dev names to HIDE all their apps. I've got 7 on my mental hitlist already.

 

Kahil, maybe you should consider switching to ATT and getting an Iphone since you seem to dislike freedom."There should be a rule."? You should also look up the term "open source" so that you may better understand how such a community works.

Complaining about free and/or cheap apps with the ability to receive a refund if unhappy; I think I've seen it all now.

How much does it really put you out to hit the uninstall button?

 

"Couldn't care less"

It bothers me a little I guess. I fear the mad amount of crap apps could dilute the market and turn off some newcomers. Don't want these apps to cheapen our brand. Thankfully the ratings system allow me to avoid these apps without ever downloading them. Haven't really had a serious problem with any apps as of yet.