Either the proprietor of cryket.com has sold the domain for a tidy little fee, is selling the domain, or it has fallen prey to the “do no evil” corporation.
Cryket (pronounced “cricket”) was one of few places where you could search the entire Android Marketplace for phone apps via the web. It was popular with the Android development community as a handy method for charting the success and trends of applications they built against others in the store, as well as reviewing daily comments left by consumers. Some bits of information found at Cryket.com were stock market-like up and down arrows charting an application’s popularity trend over time, download statistics, an area for video and screenshot uploads, and the best part of all… a QR barcode image on each application page in the Android Marketplace that provided all the information needed to download the app with your Android phone. (example of how this was done in the video below.)
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