how does a newbie keep up with best of lists

[Vad3r]

I've come from a blackberry, to having 2 android phones. Part of the deal also gave us the Galaxy tablet.

So, i am very confused with what is good vs bad. I do google searches whats the apps and all for the android. I am fairly sure many do the same.

When i first got the phone, thought i would check out what it's like for ebooks on it. Many websites would tell you Kindle free software is the best. However, going to marketplace, there would be many many comments on how it became bloatware.
best i recall, download 9megs, installs to 30megs.

Our galaxy tablet delivered today, and i'm searching and reading again. A site lists "RockPlayer Lite" as the best media player, does this, does that. But then i read comments on marketplace. Well the comments call it "permission creep", software needs to know where you are. Why I don't know, but it's on a websites must have apps, but on users apps as avoid.

How do you keep on top of whats good and whats not. It sounds to me like a great app can work so well one day, and be updated to turn into something to avoid very quickly to next.

 

[DirkGently1]

A lot of the comments in the Market can be taken with a healthy dose of skepticsim. The best way to know for sure is, as always, try for yourself. There's nothing difficult in doing that.

Kindle app is awesome and sideloading .mobi books from other sources is a piece of cake. It's my most commonly used app.

 

[shortylickens]

They must have been talking about the desktop version. The Android Kindle app is NOT 30 megs. At least not on my Droid (though I may have an older version, too).

And apps dont turn bad in one day.
The main reason most people screw up is they download an app that needs few permissions, therefore seems safe. Then they let it auto-update. THEN, they dont read the page saying the permissions have changed and just go ahead & let the app do whatever it wants from that point on. Thats how they get you. And its one of the reasons iOS is better. They take the submitted apps, inspect them, and then post them to the iPhone store as they see fit.
Google lets almost anything on the Android shop and doesnt inspect too much of it.

 

[Bateluer]

They must have been talking about the desktop version. The Android Kindle app is NOT 30 megs. At least not on my Droid (though I may have an older version, too).

And apps dont turn bad in one day.
The main reason most people screw up is they download an app that needs few permissions, therefore seems safe. Then they let it auto-update. THEN, they dont read the page saying the permissions have changed and just go ahead & let the app do whatever it wants from that point on. Thats how they get you. And its one of the reasons iOS is better. They take the submitted apps, inspect them, and then post them to the iPhone store as they see fit.
Google lets almost anything on the Android shop and doesnt inspect too much of it.

If the permissions change with an update, it should be a manual update. Android won't let you auto update if that happens.

And yes, the Kindle app does take ~30MBs. I installed it yesterday on the Nexus to check some e-zines, and it taking 26MBs without any books, subs, or trials.