The Android Market Needs Organization
Friday, April 16th, 2010The Android Market, it was reported, now has 38,000 applications for download. Of course, the problem being that many of them are not apps, per se. There are adult applications, soundboards, wallpaper, etc.
The problem with the Market is the organization. It isn’t intuitively designed. It has only basic filters, like Features, Latest, Top Paid, and Top Free. It only has one level of categorization. We call upon Google to subdivide the market further into more categories and add more advanced search options, perhaps separate the gaming, the wallpaper/soundboards, productivity apps, and adult entertainment into independent sections and allow categories to be automatically filtered from search if you are uninterested in them.
The Market is open and unrestricted, allowing a lot of duplicative and useless garbage to be entered into it. Without Google providing a superior hierarchy, we will have to defer to third party applications(which we might do anyway), such as AppBrain or Doubletwist. More on them in future posts.
How do you think the Android Market could be fixed? Comment below.
