
MixZing and TuneWiki add social networking features, and Cubed offers a goofy cube-based navigation system. bTunes, MixZing, Cubed, TuneWiki, and others have delivered respectable apps. Apple‘s iPod app blows it out of the water, as does Microsoft‘s Zune app.īut Android is not iPhone–Google is perfectly content to allow developers to fill the gap their own apps leave behind. Even its newest Froyo version is lackluster. It is, in short, the clearest demonstration of Android’s raw, Linux roots: a technically functional but completely unappealing and unexciting bit of software. It has no first-party desktop software with which to sync either media or apps. The “Now Playing” screen looks like something out of a cheap South Korean MP3 player circa 2006. It is oppressively ugly, with a black, gray, and green interface. It’s sometimes a bit buggy and slow, but it’s a prettyĪndroid’s stock music player is something of a joke in the smartphone world. Thumb drives, e-book readers, and countless other gadgets, no matter who DoubleTwist works with smartphones, media players, Initially a desktop software for MacĪnd Windows, DoubleTwist was an iTunes-looking program that was actuallyĭesigned to be everything iTunes is not: streamlined, open, and

DoubleTwist is the first original, full-package media app that makes aĬase for Android as a media player.
