Android Phones - The Missing Piece

Google is doing a great job getting adoption of their mobile OS by carriers. Even AT&T whose network can barely handle data traffic from the iPhone is going to add Android Phones to their smartphone lineup. But as you may have already read or heard in other posts, the Android Eco-System is not optimum. Basically, in Jona Tech's opinion, the lack of an "iTunes Store" equivalent for media and applications is a real detriment for both consumers and developers with the latter being especially important. Without developers, you have no apps. No apps leads to consumer dissatisfaction. Consumer dissatisfaction leads to low sales of Android power devices.

How does Google get more developers or keep developers happy? Google needs to do a better job of exposing them. They need to provide a consumer friendly 1 stop shopping experience. They need to enable the ability of developers who write applications for a living, make money.

Currently, there is no iTunes equivalent for Google. Until this is made available, then Google Android smartphones will not be able to surpass the iPhone.

Let us know what you think?

Google is Personalizing Search Results

I recently became aware of this when my SERP for "Novi Computer Repair" for Jona Tech jumped to the top of the results page. I was excited after tweaking my pages for SEO and thought I had jumped over my local competition. I got curious and logged off my iGoogle account and tried the same search - "What the .....?" was my reaction. I went to the 3rd page now!!

I did some research and posted on forums to see what was going on. Apparently, Google made a change (a quiet change) early in December of 2009 to optimize search results based on the searcher's search and click history. I guess after constant mods, re-uploading, and searches on Google for "Novi Computer Repair", Google optimized the results just for ME.

What does this mean to SEO's? My opinion is not a whole lot or it shouldn't. I would keep doing whatever works for our clients. The reason if you think about. Lets say a potential customer needs a computer repair business in Novi. Unless they have a chronic computer breaking problem, this would be the 1st time they perform this search and they would not have a prior Google history on this. This means to me that the search is still somewhat organic and non biased.

One more point - Google does allow you to turn off or suspend personalized search results.

Do people understand what Google's Android is?

Most of my none techy friends DON'T really understand the relation between Google Android to cell phones to iPhone, etc. I started a little blog on my main website to start educating people on this and other techy stuff. Let me know if I missed anything basic or if you have suggestions.

Thanks,

Jona Tech
http://www.jonatech.com

Here it is again:

Jona Tech needs to blog about Google's Android because it seems most none techy people don't have any idea what it is and how it relates to consumer electronics and mobile phones.

First and foremost, Google's Android is an operating system or OS for short. It's like Windows XP, Vista, or Windows 7 are OS's for your PC. Like Microsoft, Google is providing Android to all or most mobile phone manufacturers to use and it's available on most carriers - Verizon, TMobile, Sprint. Unlike Microsoft Windows, Android is open for modifications by all that use it and can be customized. In short Android is the Windows equivalent for cell phones.

Android is available to multiple cell phone makers like LG, Motorola, HTC, Samsung, and many others. The widely popular iPhone OS is available ONLY to Apple iPhones. Who will win the battle for the cell phone space? By the looks of our Preferred Smartphone OS Poll - it's too close to tell right now.