Every now and again I keep thinking I’d like to dabble with a Google Android phone. I know it’s a moment of weakness for an iPhone fan boy. But I keep thinking well if it is good enough for Leo Laporte then maybe I should give it a serious look.
Now like most heavy iPhone users or fanboys I have the odd app or two installed on my iPhone. Ok LOTS of apps installed on my iPhone.
Well I know that the Google Android phones allow apps to be installed. So if I was to make the leap over to the Google-side then I would need to find versions or equivalents on Google Android.
This is where I find that the Google Android-verse is putting up a barrier to stop me making that leap.
I know that Google Android has a marketplace, it’s version of the iPhone app store in iTunes. However to search the full Android marketplace to see what is there I need a Google Android phone. The only part of the Android marketplace I can see on line is a tiny tiny best of version of the marketplace.
So where in the iPhone world if I have iTunes installed I can search the app store and have a look around, or more importantly there is the web version of the app store as well. So it is easy for me to search and find an iPhone app(s) before deciding if I want to buy an iPhone. The only way on the Android marketplace for me to see if I could make that move to an Android phone and have the same functionality is to buy the Android phone!
This to me seems a bit arse about face from the king of search. And I am not going to make a leap of faith hoping that there are versions of the apps on the new platform. I want to be up and running as quick as possible, producing the same sorts of results I am now with my iPhone if I decide to make that jump over to Google Android. Sadly Google’s not thought things over and just gets in my way of making that decision. Well they make it easy, I’m sticking with my beloved iPhone.
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