If Android is going to beat the iPhone in cell phone space anytime soon (and it isn’t clear that this is a goal of Google) one of the keys is going to have to be applications. Android, like the iPhone, has an application store but unlike Apple Google doesn’t control the contents of the store nearly as tightly as Apple does. That, one would think, would be a competitive advantage for Android based phones. It turns out that the advantage is slim. For proof take a look at this list of apps you can get in the Android store that would never make it in the App Store. Except for the tethering nothing on the list seems remotely compelling.