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You could fill pages with things that can be improved on Android Market (most of which are available on the App Store). Most shortcoming are well documented - things that I would like to see personally:

- ability to publish what changed in an update

- track number of users who upgraded vs new users

- ability to search for apps and see reviews on http://www.android.com/market/ (that website is practically useless)

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The market client also needs some improvement: for example, the search feature isn't very good. Searching for "ADW Launcher" brings up countless pages of themes for the ADW Launcher before showing the actual launcher app itself.

I completely agree with you. You would figure that a search giant would have a good search implementation in their Marketplace.

You already can publish changes by including them in the app description or in the update-install approval dialog box.

They showed their cloud syncing online store at Google IO. Watch, starting around 31:10 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY3U2GXhz44

The whole video is very much worth watching for any developers.

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