Me and My Mac

It really annoys me how Apple seems to have - at times – an arbitrary app approval process.

The market is open, and some developers may love this.  I’ll admit, the whole thing just seems easier to me (as a developer).  The idea of bundling an application for as many mobile devices as possible – attracts me more, but Apple may well be doing all they can to prevent this at the moment – I guess time will tell if great ideas like Appcelerator will really suffer or not.

Anyway, I’m not getting into #331, but here’s a what I have perceived from use of both.

Crap Apps

The android market has lots of crap apps. However, there are just as many crap apps for iPhone as there are for Android.  iPhone evangelists love to band around ‘the quality of the applications’ when referencing the App Store, but there are some really shocking apps out there, just because they LOOK ok, doesn’t mean they are ok.

Great Apps

The trend iv noticed is that a great iPhone app, is better than a great Android app. The iPhone app tends to be nicer to use, it tends to be smoother, and it tends to be slicker. I’m sure there are exceptions to this, but I’m just speaking generally.  As a sidepoint, I noted one example where an iPhone app I use a lot, was hugely expensive for Android (iSilo).

Conclusion

I think the idea of having an open market is great, but there really does need to be some quality control.  Some sites do a great job of pointing at good android apps, but just browsing for apps on the iPhone can be fun in itself… the fact is, there are some apps I use on the iPhone regularly that I sorely missed on android.

iPhone 2 – HTC Desire 1