New Android Market Website Allows Users to Find, Buy Apps on their PC Discussion

[Mark Calley]

While most of the focus during today's event at Google headquarters went to Android OS 3.0 (Honeycomb) and tablets, there was an announcement that affects smartphone users: the Android Market now has its very own website.

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[Varjak]

This is very welcome, and should make a significant difference in the further success of the Android Market.

[LandSurveyor]

Seems to be organized pretty well. It would help if you could search alphabetically. Also glad to see that if you pick one app, other related apps are shown. Quite helpful.

And there was the inevitable jerk who spammed the reviews for a "singles" app. Nothing changes.

As a non-Android person, it was helpful to be able to search around.

[Drillbit]

Its really cool. No app like iTunes. Its entirely on the browser.

If you login with your GMail account, it knows how many and what kind of Android smartphones its connected to your Google ID. You can pick which devices you want to install an app.

If you download an apps, the app goes straight to your phone. Meaning, without any connections to the PC, the download notification on your Android will just appear.