The ability to find apps for your Android phone or tablet on a website should be a great step forward. It's just easier on a big screen to see what you want, enter password details and so on.
But Google's execution of the Android Market is infuriating users across the world. Not for the first time it's the use of language that's the problem.
I live in Spain, but my English is rather better than my Spanish. It shouldn't be a problem for me to set language options to deal with that. But I can't. What I have is an international mishmash with navigation in Spanish, app descriptions in English and comments in Spanish.
There are even more ludicrous examples. One Android user in Switzerland complains that the language defaults to German event though they live in the Italian-speaking part of the country.You can see more here: http://www.google.vu/support/forum/p/Android+Market/thread?tid=7a6841e195c8df9f&hl=en
The language problem with Google's service is long-running and annoying. You set all the language preferences to English, in my case, and all's fine for a few weeks. Then some sort of hidden updates resets everything.
Microsoft and Bing don't seem to have the same problem. So why can't Google sort it out?
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