I have been designing and testing my app for the past 4 months and I figured I have about another two months before I am ready to publish it. What you experienced concerns me. I didn't know about Flurry but after goggling it I know I want it within my app now and I thank you for mentioning it.
I hope the Google folks work this out and I will be reading your thread to see what comes of this. Good luck. -Chris On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 8:55 PM, dadical <keyes...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've been selling my app on the Android market for a bit over a month > now. I've had pretty decent success so far, making it into the top > ten in my category. > > Recently, I noticed a major discrepancy between Flurry's reported "new > users" and the market's stats (what little of them Google does > provide). Flurry said that I had about 4,500 new users, while market > reported just over 3,000. Holy crap. Are 1/3 of my users really > stealing the app? That's the only conclusion that I can come to, > since my experience with Flurry has been that it is pretty accurate. > Also, I have seen many pirate sites hosting my app. I used to take the > time to report them, but it seems to be a waste of resources. > > So here's the question. Should I be celebrating the fact that my app > has attained the level of "piracy worthy", and just try to ignore the > fact that there are so many punk loser pricks out there that won't > spare the pennies to buy it, or perhaps can't borrow mommy's credit > card? Is piracy a badge of honor that I should just learn to deal > with since Google won't give me the market tools to fix it? > > I like the concept that AndAppStore is trying to provide, offering an > API that can be embedded into one's app to check for purchase at > application startup. It's a bit clunky, and I'm not going to restrict > myself to AndAppStore's limited reach, but it sure would be nice if > Google (or someone else) could scrape together a competitive market > offering. > > I'm really, really, really beginning to wish that someone would go out > and get the $2 MM that it would take to create a competitive market > offering. A market that was polished, offered real sales support, and > real developer support. > > If you ask me, the rampant piracy of Android apps is just another > indication that Android Market is in desperate need of some > competition... > > -- > 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<android-developers%2bunsubscr...@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
