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Kellen

It’s not often that you get to merge personal passions into a professional life, but that’s what Kellen did when he launched Droid Life in 2009. After working years of unsatisfying jobs in the medical and property management fields, he took a risk to try and create an online community while playing with the coolest gadgets on the planet each day, a risk that has turned out to be incredibly rewarding. Outside of Droid Life, Kellen is your typical Portlander who drinks way too much good beer, complains often about the Trail Blazers, and can be found out on the streets for a run, rain or shine.

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  • Well this is a nice way to show up the exponential growth of the app market. ..THIS IS VERY EASILY UNDERSTANDABLE…thanks…

  • The iPhone will plateau a lot sooner than Android will simply because the size that they are reaching is approaching a critical point..very useful I really appreciate the research you put into it

  • This Android Marke is fun and actually a little addictive! Recommend, Droid incredible works.

  • Well The iPhone will plateau a lot sooner than Android will simply because the size that they are reaching is approaching a critical point..very useful I really appreciate the research you put into it,Thanks

  • Well The iPhone will plateau a lot sooner than Android will simply because the size that they are reaching is approaching a critical point..very useful I really appreciate the research you put into it,Thanks

  • Google's Android app marketplace would have to get a lot better, the many flavors of Android would have to meet a simple, single platform standard..thanks for this…

  • Needs more cool games!
    As a person with a lot of free time, the game section is seriously lacking in cool games.
    The iphone has a TON of awesome games.. sorry for blaspheming!

  • One gripe I have about the market is dealing with the search interface. I hate toi say it but I like how when you search on the app store (even on google.com now that I think of it) it tries to auto-complete what your typing in. I with the market would do the same thing, and I honestly don't know why it doesn't.

  • Kellex, I'm completely loving this and all your constant current updates!

    And the Ipad can suck my Droid ****.

  • I hope news like this will finally give all the iPhone devs who have been looking for a reason to start making apps for Android. I still think the Android Market is a bit lackluster at the moment overall and consumers are simply not as excited or as impressed with the sexy App Store. I am concerned the iPad will interfere with Android's momentum but I think there is lots of potential to stand out in an otherwise untapped market. Until then, I will still mostly use my iPod Touch for gaming and my Motorola Droid for everything else.

      • Notion Ink Adam, IDC Gemini, HP Slate (one version) will all run Android. And they will all feature much better hardware. The Gemini in particular with the NVIDIA Tegra 2 chip will seriously blow away the A4 and anything else out there. 1080p video and Flash will play without a hiccup and it is very low voltage so it won't be awful in battery life (even though you can always switch it out for a full battery). Once the EVO hits Sprint Android sales will skyrocket also. I have a feeling this is just the beginning…this summer will be huge for Android. As long as everything with the iPhone 4 announcement tomorrow goes as planned and is nothing more than multitasking and widgets (sound familiar) we shouldn't have anything to worry about.

  • While this growth is encouraging, I would gladly trade this quantity for quality. It seems like there are more craps than apps in the market. The market itself could use a facelift, but thankfully AppBrain helps.

    • AppBrain still isn't visually appealing at all. I also like to browse most recent additions to the market, which that doesn't do more than 6 at a time. Doubletwist is also trying to create its own UI for the Android Market, but it's still not very functional…

      • I agree that AppBrain isn't pretty, but it's a bit more useful (at least to me) than Android Market. You'd think the king of searches (Google) would devise a better method for browsing apps. I suppose it's a bit funny to be complaining about this, because there's really nothing else I “need” on my Droid.

    • Ummm… Really? So the fact that there are like 20 times the number of iPhones as there are Android phones doesn't play into the picture? Sure, the total downloads of the top iPhone apps are expected to be huge, but the more telling figure would be the average number of downloads between the two with respect to user (Does the average user download 1 app or 4 apps per –insert time period here–)? It's a lot easier to go from 1 million devices sold to 2 million than it is to go from 70 million to 140 million. The iPhone will plateau a lot sooner than Android will (simply because the size that they are reaching is approaching a critical point). The key is not will it still grow or not, but will it shrink (Rate of adopters falls below rate of people switching off)… The more you sell, the harder it becomes to keep those rates in balance (and Apple does a good job trying to keep it that way)…

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