Too Little To Late. After a long wait of 30 months and after more than 30,000 app in Android Market, Google has some how realized that there can be an Android App of Orkut too!  So, today Google launches its Official ”Orkut for Android” App. Orkut for Android allows you to create a “Orkut Friends Live Folder” on your Home Screen that lets you browse and communicate to your friends directly. Orkut for Android also allows you upload pics directly from the Android device to your Orkut album. Obviously it has a Scrap notification that will appear directly on the devices notification bar.

Earlier we have talked in length about the slow and pain full dead of Orkut in India and how it is loosing heavily to Facebook. I also said that [read comments] Orkut death is more of Google’s  conscious decision than any thing else because it now sees Google Profiles as its social player against Facebook.

“The main problem here is even Google seem to have abandoned the evolution of Orkut …. Google is already convinced that Orkut has lost in the social network arena from Facebook, So Orkut never gets the due attention. I would say Google now sees Google Profiles as a its new social player.”

That is what happened – Google launched Google Buzz with Google Profiles at its foundation. That is where the problem starts (at least for the Indian users) – After using Orkut for years they feel betrayed when all of a sudden they have migrate to a much more mature social network (facebook). It is hard for them to under stand that Orkut is dying not only because of the lack of innovation but primarily because of the lack of support from mother Google itself. Just take this for example – two and a half years after the lauch of Android Market Place we have an “Orkut For Android”. Thanks, but we don’t use Orkut any more.