Image by avlxyz via FlickrGoogle’s Android Market and Apple's App Store are both very akin online stores, you can browse them to find and buy new apps. However, the applications mostly don’t support both the platforms, unless the developer has made two versions of the app and sells on both markets, you can’t buy an app from one store and run it on the other device.
If we compare both online stores, it will be safe to attribute Apple’s App Store to be distinctive for being more refined, "magical," and having fancy looks. It also holds good repute for having a wide collection of games, as Apple devices incline more towards improving their gaming features; the store keeps official games from renowned publishers like Square-Enix and EA. While comparatively, you should consider the apps on the Android Market to be somewhat pale, as in the apps are not as charming but rather very customized and yanked. It is known for its impeccable range in variety; it will have the most fancy and expensive to the most down-market and cheap app both.
Apple is known for its standards and only delivery best exquisite experience, it actually kind of lure the buyers to pay as much for the app because they will want to. Thus that perfection also has its price, as Apple charges the app developers a yearly price of $99 for using Apple's platform to sell their apps on the App Store. On the contrary, Google has kept it Android Market simple rather than up-market. It will have all the types of apps with widest variety, tempting for more and more users to inquire, which earns them clicks to sell ads. Hence, the developers are not charged for any timely fee other than the one-time $50 fee to upload the app and definitely for using its store. This in turns give the developers the opportunity to put anything online.
Google’s method has its own benefits as it allows you to be free and do anything with the apps, while Apple keeps its "experience" fancy and up-market only. This also effects in Android Market overflowing of with numerous pointless junk apps, which Google is recently attempting to make a little more refined and only keep the useful apps. Another approach is to implement better ways to search these apps on the overflowing Market, filtering the ones seemingly unnecessary.
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