How We’ll Know When Google Play Really Has Caught Up to the iOS App Store

Erica Ogg:

Where is Android’s Angry Birds? Or its Instagram?

Yes, obviously the game and the photo app are both on Android now. But where’s Android’s killer, break-out (non-Google, for obvious reasons) app that explodes on the platform and leaves iOS users clamoring for it? Vine, for instance, is the buzzy mobile app of the moment, and as is par for the course for these things, it’s iOS only.

Yours truly, back in November 2010: “Where Are the Android Killer Apps?” Still waiting.

★ Tuesday, 5 February 2013