Yeah.. I got it also....but I really hope they are doing something to
reduce the impact of "Spam Apps" at the same time.
My very simple idea to reduce the impact "Spam Apps" have on the market
would be to only allow an app to show up in the "Just In" category 3
times a year, and never less than 2 months apart. That should be enough
for legit developers, and "Spam Apps" would very quickly stop dominating
the "Just In" list.
I'm betting I could program that logic and implement it on my site in
slightly less than an hour.
And if the market really wanted to do more than an hour's worth of
programming... say... two hours of programming... they could add one
more entry a year for apps that have over 5,000 downloads and a better
than 3.5 average rating, and give the developer the choice when he/she
uploads a new version whether they want to use one of their "Just In"
appearances or save that for a later version.
Ok... we're up to 2 hours programming now :).
Then... for any developer that has more than 10 apps they could reduce
the number of "Just In" per app to 2 a year.
Wow.... now 2 1/2 hours of programming.... Hope Google has allocated
enough programming resources to the market for this :).
I'm sure with a couple of days worth of programming allotment a much
better solution could be devised.... but this would be fairly effective
for a couple of hours :).
Your thoughts?
Sincerely,
Brad Gies
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On 25/09/2010 11:12 AM, skooter500 wrote:
I received this from Google yesterday:
Hello,
We're writing to inform you about some changes to Android Market that
require your attention.
Over the next few weeks, we’ll be adding paid apps support for
additional countries. If you have selected to publish your paid apps
to all locations and intend to support all new locations as we expand
the number of supported countries for paid apps, you don’t have to do
anything. If you have selected to publish your paid apps to all
locations but intend to only target the currently supported 14
countries, please update your location selections to target these
specific countries.
Please look for follow-up emails when we introduce paid apps support
for specific additional countries in the coming weeks. At that time,
you’ll have the option to target these specific countries.
Thanks, and we look forward to continue working with you on Android
Market.
Sincerely,
The Android Market Team
It seems at last Google are adding new coutries for paid apps! This is
pretty exciting news. I wonder what countries will be supported?
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