geeze after thinking about this for a few minutes longer... Seems pretty complex of a app with all your api integrations for a Flashlight... I wonder how many of the 6 Million users that you have as your customer base had issues with your app.. I wonder if anyone really needed a flashlight to work and then your app did not.... "just a situation"... I am sure out of 6 million flash light users that there had to of been a problem for Google©™... as I wonder how many people used there Real telephones to complain of such issues etc etc... how was your tech support for the 6Million users?
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 6:15 AM, Lenn Dolling <lenndoll...@gmail.com> wrote: > a horror story for sure. 6M users is a huge hand full to just be dumped > like a rock. Like I wrote a app that calculates CDC Flu XML data from live > datasets and built internal databases for custom reporting of the data and > and a whole lot more and I have yet to have a single user download the app.. > . seems a flashlight app that gets 6million users is the way to go.. I still > will stand strong on my stance that you should just move on and go to a more > "satisfying" project. > > > http://fluapp.challenge.gov/submissions/3027-cdcs-flu-weekly-sneeze-in-your-sleeve > > use your 20+ devices to good work and help heal the world. > > Lenn Dolling > > > > On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 5:50 AM, Yahel <kaye...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I'm sorry to be that guy, but you really should start thinking that >> they really just deleted everything about your account, not just hid >> it somewhere and are able to put it back up for you. That's the thing >> about general intervention and not case by case intervention : Fire >> and forget. >> >> I really do hope for you that this time the Android Market Team has >> been a little more profesionnal and kept backup but I really wouldn't >> count on it if I were you. >> >> Come back to tell us what happenned if they ever get back to you. >> >> Good luck mate. >> >> Yahel >> >> >> >> On 14 juin, 14:29, "n.a" <devuni...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Apple, at least, gives you 5 days to fix your issues and doesn't >> > suspend the whole account. >> > This is a bad situation to be in. I've sent an e-mail to android- >> > market-support AT google.com but if they answer me after 2 weeks all >> > will be lost. I'll lose my ranking position and will never be able to >> > come back. A whole year of investment deleted in a single click. >> > >> > On Jun 14, 1:44 pm, Yahel <kaye...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > > Sorry that you only found out now about google's ways of doing things. >> > >> > > That is true to everything Google and that's the best advice I can >> > > give you : Never ever rely on one of their ecosystems to be your only >> > > source of income. >> > >> > > Actually you can broaden this : Never ever rely on anyone ecosystem to >> > > be your only source of income. >> > >> > > But it is especially true for Google : You see, they seem like a huge >> > > company making billions of dollars in benefice each year so you'd >> > > think they would have a huge staff helping their users, communicating >> > > before taking decisions, warning people of services disruption, not >> > > pushing piles and piles of bugs into the Android Market each and >> > > everytime they upgrade it since there is a good 10 000 developers >> > > using it. >> > >> > > But the truth is : For every project Google launches the team that >> > > works on it is only of 2-6 people. Only engineers, no designers, no >> > > graphists, no supervisors, no usability engineer. And with such small >> > > teams for applications that have tenth of thousands users you can >> > > easily see how they have no time to treat things case by case. >> > >> > > So what happened to you is something like this : An engineer found out >> > > that one malware used permissions XX and a specific access to i/o via >> > > NDK. So since he has no time for these foolisheries he just pulled all >> > > the apps that have these specifics in their code. >> > >> > > - "That's 10 apps and there is one with 6,5 millions downloads and a >> > > five star rating and no complaints" >> > > - "Yeah I don't care we don't have time for this, pull the plug !!" >> > >> > > For what it's worth, with a delay of two weeks I was able to have a >> > > contact with the Android Market team once on this mail address : >> > > android-market-support AT google.com >> > >> > > I really feel your pain and I hope you get it sorted out. >> > > But be sure to start several other apps for iphone as I did and find >> > > other revenues that do not depends on someone else framework. >> > >> > > Good luck. >> > >> > > Yahel >> > >> > > On 14 juin, 10:57, "n.a" <devuni...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > > > Hello Guys and Google, >> > > > I'm the developer of the most popular flashlight application on the >> > > > Android Market - Tiny Flashlight + LED (over 6.5 million downloads, >> > > > top 50 in the overall applications ranking). >> > >> > > > Today I found that Google have deleted my developer account without >> > > > any notice and removed Tiny Flashlight from the market. I saw the >> news >> > > > that Google removed 10 malware apps from the Android Market ( >> http://phandroid.com/2011/06/14/google-removes-10-new-malware-apps-fr... >> > > > ) and decided to write you. >> > >> > > > Seems like I've been affected by this and I hope this will be >> resolved >> > > > soon, because I have invested a lot in Tiny Flashlight. For the one >> > > > year since Tiny Flashlight has been released, I've managed to create >> > > > one of the best android applications on the market. Although a >> > > > flashlight application seems easy to create, it's actually quite >> hard >> > > > on android, because the different hardware vendors have different >> > > > camera drivers and this requires a lot of workarounds just to start >> > > > the camera led / flash. This takes a lot of time and investment. In >> > > > the last 4 months alone I had to buy over 20 different android >> > > > devices, spend huge amounts of time finding a way to start the led >> on >> > > > these devices and making the whole process trouble-free for the >> user. >> > > > I've also gone a step further. Tiny Flashlight is one of the few >> > > > applications, which supports all android versions on the market - >> 1.5, >> > > > 1.6, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.0, and 3.1. It's the only flashlight >> > > > application, which still works on Motorola Quench / i1 / Backflip >> (all >> > > > Android 1.5). >> > >> > > > Tiny Flashlight has become my primary source of income and the >> > > > investment I've made is huge. Every single line of code has been >> > > > written by me (except the Admob, Millennial Media, and Flurry SDKs, >> > > > but I think they are respectable companies and would never allow any >> > > > malware in their distributed SDKs). >> > >> > > > I just can not afford to make the tiniest mistake with Tiny >> > > > Flashlight, because it's one of the top applications on the market >> and >> > > > I have over 4 million active users and I've invested my life into >> > > > this. >> > >> > > > I’m angry that Google never contacted me. They just deleted the >> whole >> > > > account. I hope that they will fix it soon, before I lose my users >> and >> > > > ranking position. >> > >> > > > >> http://www.appbrain.com/app/tiny-flashlight-led/com.devuni.flashlight >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "Android Developers" group. >> To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
