Sprint-Android marriage & AppMarket progress

[justjimjpc]

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Google Apps Market doing well for its short time in existence..

Tricia Duryee at Moconews reports that the first version of the Google phone, T-Mobile's G1, showed impressive iPhone-like momentum with its own foray into the world of applications.

"T-Mobile G1 customers have each downloaded more than 40 applications from the Android Market," Duryee wrote. "If estimates are close to being correct—and about 1 million G1’s have been sold to date—that could translate into about 40 million downloads total. That’s a fraction of the 500 million downloads achieved on the iPhone, however, the iPhone has more users and has been offering downloads for a longer period of time. In addition, four out of five G1 customers, commonly download applications at least once a week."

Duryee also noted that T-Mobile's experience is that customers using the GI "use data services 50 times more than the average voice-centric phone user; and 80 percent of T-Mobile G1 customers browse the web on a daily basis"

 

[dkaufman1]

Is there a quick way to count?

 

[justjimjpc]

Is there a quick way to count?

I use aTrackDog ... I am currently at 203 .... app_whore ... noMemory

 

[dkaufman1]

Any updates to aTrackDog? I uninstalled it when the market began offering update alerts. Needed the space! ;-)

 

[justjimjpc]

Any updates to aTrackDog? I uninstalled it when the market began offering update alerts. Needed the space! ;-)

My Current version is "aTrackDog ver 2.30" 86KB ... fairly (relatively) small ..

 

[dkaufman1]

Sorry my question was poorly worded...any "major features" that you like since the market update that allowed us to see new app updates? Is there a reason to have aTrackdog? I didn't see one after the market's update.

 

[justjimjpc]

Sorry my question was poorly worded...any "major features" that you like since the market update that allowed us to see new app updates? Is there a reason to have aTrackdog? I didn't see one after the market's update.

Main things:

Loading & Sorting is faster;
Sorting by Size;
Export App List;
Shows Installed Ver# & the Newest Ver#.
And of course it covers third party apps ... AppMarket Can't ...

 

[johnkzin]

Bah!

Sprint can kiss my fat white a*s. If they wanted in on the android fu, they shouldn't have dissed android 6 months ago. I _might_ at some point get an EVDO or WiMAX data card from them, but that's about it.

More likely I'll get a data card from AT&T or T-Mo.