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by throwaway_97 4035 days ago
My main problem with android is the play store. Its so heavily localised with crappy apps and many bad attempts at trying to find the right things for me. I miss out a lot.
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Come over to the iPhone side of the fence where...

no, we're flooded with crap too. Tons and tons of it.

I like the walled garden, I like the idea of curation. I just wish Apple would really enforce them. It takes a single search in the iOS store to easily find stuff that is either illegal or just copied junk.

Google has announced a new search algorithm during I/O. http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/05/28/io-2015-google-is-wo... Clustering the results by topics sounds like a good improvement, at least in theory.
There really needs to be a way to filter apps that have "in-app payments".

While some legit apps have them for upgrade, etc., most are Skinner boxes that are only relevant for a very specific demographic.

I agree. How can google of all companies be bad at grabbing the results I want from my search?