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To anyone who thinks: that a very small team creating an entire, enormously complex operating system, with unending goals for platforms improvements, that has a

To anyone who thinks: that a very small team creating an entire, enormously complex operating system, with unending goals for platforms improvements, that has already been successfully iterating at an extreme pace, is up against enormous competition from Apple and Microsoft, and is playing the long game for the future of mobile and computing as a whole... is really ignoring these extremely common complaints and resting on its laurels... ...uh, really? There are many very concrete reasons to believe they know about the vast majority of these issues and have respective solutions addressing them somewhere in their product roadmap. (ie, major UI revision in Gingerbread, along with optimization for tablets.) That, and they've been overwhelmingly successful so far, as Android phones now consistently outsell the iPhone each quarter.

ESchmidtSeesYou 16y ago
Also, consider how Google just added Market support for buying and selling paid apps in ~20 countries: http://www.androidcentral.com/google-expands-paid-app-support-ton-new-countries http://www.androidcentral.com/google-expands-paid-app-suppor... The improvements really are constantly coming.
- bad_user 16y ago
  Yeah, well, my country is still not on that list; although it is available in the iTunes store. You consider it an improvement, I consider it a late partial fix of what should've been there from the start.
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tvon 16y ago
I'm having a hard time telling if you're being sarcastic or not.
slackerIII 16y ago
I'm sure they are working hard. I don't think anyone is resting on their laurels. But I'm not seeing any results. I'm guessing that they keep running into problems shipping an overly designed new thing, but since it will be ready any day now, they aren't putting any resources into patching up the old thing that I have to deal with.
jessriedel 16y ago
> ...a very small team creating an entire, enormously complex operating system... I don't think the size of the team is a defense against the OP's critique. Criticism of Google's handling of the Android market includes the decision about how much man-power to devote to it. This isn't a personal attack on the team members.
- tvon 16y ago
  If the team size is a problem, maybe we can hold a bake sale so Google can hire another engineer or two.

ESchmidtSeesYou 16y ago

Also, consider how Google just added Market support for buying and selling paid apps in ~20 countries: http://www.androidcentral.com/google-expands-paid-app-support-ton-new-countries http://www.androidcentral.com/google-expands-paid-app-suppor... The improvements really are constantly coming.

bad_user 16y ago
Yeah, well, my country is still not on that list; although it is available in the iTunes store. You consider it an improvement, I consider it a late partial fix of what should've been there from the start.

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tvon 16y ago

I'm having a hard time telling if you're being sarcastic or not.

slackerIII 16y ago

I'm sure they are working hard. I don't think anyone is resting on their laurels. But I'm not seeing any results. I'm guessing that they keep running into problems shipping an overly designed new thing, but since it will be ready any day now, they aren't putting any resources into patching up the old thing that I have to deal with.

jessriedel 16y ago

> ...a very small team creating an entire, enormously complex operating system... I don't think the size of the team is a defense against the OP's critique. Criticism of Google's handling of the Android market includes the decision about how much man-power to devote to it. This isn't a personal attack on the team members.

tvon 16y ago
If the team size is a problem, maybe we can hold a bake sale so Google can hire another engineer or two.