Comments on: Chomp says Android Users Prefer to Search for “Free” Android Apps according to their Analytics Report http://www.androidtapp.com/chomp-says-android-users-prefer-to-search-for-free-android-apps-according-to-their-analytics-report/ Android App Reviews, Android Apps, News, App Recommendations, Interviews Sun, 19 May 2013 22:56:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: ChrisLH http://www.androidtapp.com/chomp-says-android-users-prefer-to-search-for-free-android-apps-according-to-their-analytics-report/comment-page-1/#comment-240408 ChrisLH Thu, 09 Jun 2011 03:19:07 +0000 http://www.androidtapp.com/?p=24486#comment-240408 I honestly think that one of the primary reasons for this is that it is prohibitively difficult to make really good looking apps on Android. Apple has a huge advantage because UI/UX is a major component of Apple’s strategy and Apple devotes significant resources to making it relatively easy to incorporate high quality graphics and smooth animations. This adds a lot of polish and eye-candy to apps which makes people a lot more likely to feel like they are getting their money’s worth when paying a few bucks for an app.

Android is much more difficult to incorporate this type of polish, and no matter how good and functional an application is, if it doesn’t look good, if it doesn’t have that polish and eye-catching looks/animations, then people don’t feel like its worth paying for. So they want free apps.

I think as a community, its important for Android users and developers to begin to push Google to work towards making the overall user interface a priority. Even now, with phones which are much much more powerful than the iPhone, Android is laggy and choppy and the graphics and animations are very poor in comparison. This is due in large part to the emphasis Apple puts on this while Google does not appear to care at all about UI.

It really is engineers (Google) vs. designers (Apple) and while I love Android from a functionality standpoint, they could learn alot from Apple about making a smoother user experience.

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