There was some startling news from Motorola on Thursday as the company’s CEO spoke at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Global Technology conference.
[ad#Google Adsense 300×250 in story]According to Sanjay Jha, CEO of Motorola, of all the Android devices that are returned, 70 percent come back because of Android apps and the negative effect they have on performance.
According to an IDG News report on Thursday, Jha said Motorola is “beginning to understand the impact” that Android’s untested apps have on its devices.
Because Android’s Marketplace is an open environment, anyone can upload an app. Unfortunately, that leads to some less than optimal apps that users can download to their devices.
While some people may have a problem with Apple controlling the software and hardware with the iPhone and iPad, you cannot argue with the success the company has with its applications.
Apple has processes in place to catch bad apps and to work with developers (hopefully) to get those issues fixed. I don’t recall having any longterm problems with apps on my iPhone.
Quality hardware, quality operating system and quality developers.
How convenient
Do the carriers/resellers take the phone back for that reason? I’m a bit surprised.
I think what they mean is that people return them for performing badly (short battery life, crashing, etc.) and when Mototola checks them they find the cause was bad apps, not the phone itself.
Google’s non-vetted App Marketplace is a disaster in the making. Only some damn fools would allow anyone to upload apps unchecked on a consumer platform. Who the hell needs an open garden if it’s filled with weeds? Motorola is making a very serious accusation about the Android platform as an Android partner. Of course, the loyal Droidtards will just smile and say it’s only a few malicious or poorly designed apps and how much they love their Androidian freedom. It’s not so good for the average consumer who really doesn’t understand why the device doesn’t work properly. I hear a number of people complaining about their Android smartphones rebooting on their own rather often. This world is not filled with tech-heads that can troubleshoot their own smartphones. Google better put a stop to this crap now before the platform really gets out of hand. Maybe it’s a good thing for Apple because it might drive Android smartphone users to the iOS platform in the long-term.
That’s what they said
So far i am loving my android based phone. I also have an ipod touch and love it.
I don’t look at my self as a fan boy in eather camp. even though the Android market is totally open there are reviews of all apps. I will admit some personal gilt here, in that i generally don’t review software. I know hat i should but i don’t. As a long tome open source user i should take the stand that it is my duty to report in a review it the software i try os a total piece of junk. The android store should be self policing in that the experienced users should be rating buggy apps with low star ratings.
let me use an example here. the pandora app for eh iphone has passed apple QA but i find that is is buggy as hell and crashes all the time. but i am to darn lazy to post that in a review. there are buggy apps in he apple app store and there are buggy apps in he android market. we are surround by buggy apps on our computers and phones. if there is any fault here it may lie in the way the android OS is dealing with junk cleanup. and don’t forget that we are also dealing with java applets and not natively compiled code. you will alwase loose performance in java and flash. there are tones of ppl complaining that ios does not run flash, but by barring flash apple has built a more stable platform.