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If they are not "happy" with the purchase rates then perhaps they should start by fixing the performance of their market-app. I'm on a fairly high-end android

by moe 16y ago

If they are not "happy" with the purchase rates then perhaps they should start by fixing the performance of their market-app. I'm on a fairly high-end android (Samsung Galaxy S) and it takes nearly 60 seconds to open the market-app for the first time. Over WiFi. Yes, a full minute. I kid you not. And the agony doesn't stop there. Moving around in the shop is choppy and slow. 10-20 second lags are normal. Overall responsiveness is atrocious. And that's without any app-downloads going on in the background. Go figure what happens once the phone actually begins downloading... I don't think this is the only reason for the relatively low purchase-rates. But it surely plays its part...

Qz 16y ago
Market load time on my HTC Droid Incredible is about 4 seconds. The green carousel thing is laggy for maybe a second longer. After that everything is responsive. No '10-20 second lags' whatsoever.
- nickolai 16y ago
  same on my xperia X10. thought that's "the old breed" since it runs android 2.1 only.
scorpion032 16y ago
I agree. Exactly the reason, I have given up on anything but really good 3rd party apps, on Android. I have an iTouch which I use for simple apps. Android is for Gmail, GReader, Hacker News, Reddit and the browser. iTouch for everything else.
spiffworks 16y ago
Your point and the responses so far bring up what I consider to be Android's biggest problem - unpredictability. Since background software can run haphazardly, a single piece of misbehaving software can bring even the most powerful Android phone to a standstill. And that's no good, if a user finds that something is slow, they simply stop using it. Google encounters this everyday with its search results. For some reason, the Android team hasn't seem to have figured this out.
- Qz 16y ago
  I see that as a hardware problem, not an android problem. It's still the consumer's responsibility to do their homework and not buy devices that suck. Crappy COMPAQs didn't make people stop using Windows.

by moe 16y ago

Qz 16y ago

Market load time on my HTC Droid Incredible is about 4 seconds. The green carousel thing is laggy for maybe a second longer. After that everything is responsive. No '10-20 second lags' whatsoever.

nickolai 16y ago
same on my xperia X10. thought that's "the old breed" since it runs android 2.1 only.

scorpion032 16y ago

I agree. Exactly the reason, I have given up on anything but really good 3rd party apps, on Android. I have an iTouch which I use for simple apps. Android is for Gmail, GReader, Hacker News, Reddit and the browser. iTouch for everything else.

spiffworks 16y ago

Your point and the responses so far bring up what I consider to be Android's biggest problem - unpredictability. Since background software can run haphazardly, a single piece of misbehaving software can bring even the most powerful Android phone to a standstill. And that's no good, if a user finds that something is slow, they simply stop using it. Google encounters this everyday with its search results. For some reason, the Android team hasn't seem to have figured this out.

Qz 16y ago
I see that as a hardware problem, not an android problem. It's still the consumer's responsibility to do their homework and not buy devices that suck. Crappy COMPAQs didn't make people stop using Windows.