[android-developers] Re: Anyone else notice that the Top apps in android.market.com seem inaccurate?

2009-09-08 Thread Marco Nelissen
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 9:31 AM, niko20nikolatesl...@yahoo.com wrote: If you look at the apps that are in the Top paid category, and then go to Cryket.com and look them up, I find it hard to believe that these apps are really the top paid. For example, Buka is 1000-5000 downloads at about

[android-developers] Re: Anyone else notice that the Top apps in android.market.com seem inaccurate?

2009-09-08 Thread Disconnect
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Marco Nelissenmarc...@android.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 9:31 AM, niko20nikolatesl...@yahoo.com wrote: If you look at the apps that are in the Top paid category, and then go to Cryket.com and look them up, I find it hard to believe that these apps are

[android-developers] Re: Anyone else notice that the Top apps in android.market.com seem inaccurate?

2009-09-08 Thread Dianne Hackborn
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Disconnect dc.disconn...@gmail.com wrote: If you look at the original email, it has nothing to do with cyrket and everything to do with the market mess. What mess? Market uses a lot of criteria for determining which apps to place first, only some of which are

[android-developers] Re: Anyone else notice that the Top apps in android.market.com seem inaccurate?

2009-09-08 Thread Disconnect
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Dianne Hackbornhack...@android.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Disconnect dc.disconn...@gmail.com wrote: If you look at the original email, it has nothing to do with cyrket and everything to do with the market mess. What mess?  Market uses a lot

[android-developers] Re: Anyone else notice that the Top apps in android.market.com seem inaccurate?

2009-09-08 Thread Disconnect
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Marco Nelissenmarc...@android.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 9:31 AM, niko20nikolatesl...@yahoo.com wrote: If you look at the apps that are in the Top paid category, and then go to Cryket.com and look them up, I find it hard to believe that these apps are

[android-developers] Re: Anyone else notice that the Top apps in android.market.com seem inaccurate?

2009-09-08 Thread Moto
Create a compelling application :P Nice interface along with great functionality and I guess you might just be considered... I'm talking about featured applications... I think google want's to show off their Android platform using cool applications... maybe? :P -Moto! On Sep 8, 1:19 pm,

[android-developers] Re: Anyone else notice that the Top apps in android.market.com seem inaccurate?

2009-09-08 Thread niko20
Exactly, I was talking about the android.market.com website! I would understand featured apps being manually picked, but Top paid also seem completely arbitrary, and pretty much BS IMO. I would think Top paid would actually be based on some sort of real information, but that website barely ever

[android-developers] Re: Anyone else notice that the Top apps in android.market.com seem inaccurate?

2009-09-08 Thread niko20
I guess what I mean to say is that supposedly all these new phones are coming out with android, but the market and the market website still stink to high heaven with basic problems. (Download issues, BS top stats, bad messages like authorizing credit card when a user upgrades). Yes 1.6 will