As far as shopping experiences go, Google’s Android Market is akin to a farmers market, with different wares around every corner and in no particular order. And it’s not much better for developers — Jon Lech Johansen, aka DVD Jon, rightly suggests, “[I]t’s time for Google to clean up the house.” But without exercising a control process around application approval like Apple does — a practice that Apple has been criticized for in the past — Google has to proceed carefully, lest it lose what many feel is a key advantage over Apple: openness.

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To be honest, this is simply amazing for work done on a phone.

I do have to say, I am very happy with this phone.

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Loving my evo and I am finding lots of uses for it. Battery life if definitely better since I rooted and loaded the dDC3.2 rom and disabled a few things that I dont want running all the time. I do keep a power source near by regardless as I want it to be topped off when I do take it off its lifelin

How is this a positive user experience for non-nerds? I'm technical, but even I don't find having to do that acceptable.

(Credit: Android)

About 20 percent of the 48,000 apps in the Android marketplace allow a third-party application access to sensitive or private information, according to a report released on Tuesday.

And some of the apps were found to have the ability to do things like make calls and send text messages without the mobile user doing anything. For instance, 5 percent of the apps can place calls to any number and 2 percent can allow an app to send unknown SMS messages to premium numbers that incur expensive charges, security firm SMobile Systems concluded in its Android market threat report.

Meanwhile, dozens of apps were found to have the same type of access to sensitive information as known spyware does, including access to the content of e-mails and text messages, phone call information, and device location, said Dan Hoffman, chief technology officer at SMobile Systems.

This is just the kind of scenario that Apple's App Store is designed to prevent. Android fanbois can get all puffed up in righteous indignation all they want about "control" and "freedom." The unintended consequences from their supposedly superior model are ones I can do without.

This is one of the consequences of Feature Fetishism.