A long winded way of saying the Android phone felt like it’d been designed by a search engine company rather than one that’d spent the better part of 30 years making desirable, innovative consumer electronics and software?

How much time do users actually spend in official applications created by Apple/Android(Google) rather than third-party appstore bought ones? Is it purely a quality issue and Android not being nearly fussy enough about what’s compliant/acceptable? If anyones pushed apps through various appstores what kind of rejections did you initially have to work through? usability objections? too rubbish icons? It feels wrong?

If we think about the developers for a moment. When you’re developing for the iPhone you’ve got a much larger potential sales base, not to mention the UX expectation bar has already been set high. This means you can spend a lot more on development. I’m guessing the same isn’t true on Android just yet and to some extent their store has to take whatsoevers going to appear competitive. Taking about openness if Apple & co. where all more open and it was easier for developers to port apps across platforms. They could then spread some of those hefty development overheads around and the spread of quality apps a bit more even? Not something Apple as the current king-of-the-castle probably want to see happening.