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Media Misinformation

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/13/technology/personaltech/13smart.html has some bad writing about Android to correct.

The NY Times writer, indeed, missed the clue train when it came to AppBrain.com for Android users. It permits selecting apps by category on a PC and reading reviews before picking them for install. You can also have links for apps e-mailed to the phone, marked for install the next time you sync with Android if you install the phone-side client, or the ever-useful QR Code for simplest installs.

Not only do folks in Noo Yawk get misinformed, but folks internationally, as the NYT syndicates this guy's column to fish wrappers everywhere.

If you wish to let "All the news that fits, we print" know about this blooper, the web page to do so is at Bob Tedeschi - The New York Times - click on E-MAIL or REPORT AT ERROR at right.

I've already posted a correcting comment at the Globe and Mail; please, if you see this mistake in print elsewhere, let that paper/website know it's wrong.
 
This isn't truly misinformation IMO. Do a search on apprain.com from your pc for gingerbread keyboard. I guarantee you it won't bring up the same thing as what I have working on my EVO, even though the first hit is what I get on the official market. Now, I was able to find said app doing a search, but it took a bit more effort. My point is, even I think that the search functions in all of the markets are lacking. While appbrain is an improvement, it is far from great, and it's not even an official Google app. The people marketing the market (sounds wierd, but that's what it is) aren't even the ones to put out the better of the two solutions.

Now, this isn't to say that there isn't misinformation going around even to newswriters, but I really don't think this article backs that up too strongly, if at all. News articles tend to gneralize, and, generally speaking, I think everything that was said in that article was spot on.
 
He has a point. The market is by far the most disappointing thing about android for me.

Filtering and sorting for starters, would make it usable
 
Even if there's proof that the writer purposefully left out Appbrain, that's not misinformation. I saw no claim that those were the only apps available to search the market.
 
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