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Re:Lab tests: Why Consumer Reports can't recommend the iPhone 4 by squidsoup on Monday July 12, 2010 @06:09PM (#1509620)
One thing I noticed today, was that with the announcement of the Google/MIT visual Android development initiative Google App Inventor (http://appinventor.googlelabs.com/about/), along came a flood of comments along the lines of "there's enough shovelware on Android already!" and "this will saturate the marketplace with crap!" etc.

Perhaps there's something to be said for the "app store jail".

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Re:Lab tests: Why Consumer Reports can't recommend the iPhone 4 by technomancy on Monday July 12, 2010 @07:01PM (#1509748)
News flash: 85% of everything is crap.

The solution is to make the good stuff rise to the top, not to suppress the crap. Luckily since Android apps can be distributed on the web, we can fall back to tried-and-true search techniques when the built-in Market app isn't cutting it.

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