whoo hoo! In the last 3 days I worked hard to put out a title that might get
me more downloads check it out.
Vancouver Riots The Game 2011
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Vancouver-Riots-The-Game-2011/180693255322974?sk=wall
:) Not better than a lightbulb. I just wanted to bring some global
Actually, though he expressed it with the sarcasm emoticon, I have to
agree with Romain Guy's assessment as more accurate: he overdid it a
little bit.
I would have eliminated only maximum and 'effects' as way too broad,
and Best, Great, Fun, Cool, Coolest, Widget as claiming too much.
Also
On Jun 15, 8:40 am, Zsolt Vasvari zvasv...@gmail.com wrote:
What Google has to do is to create a separate Tags input field in the
market admin panel, give it some limit and then let the developers
compete. This is the fair way.
In your case, 2/3 of your app description was keywords
I'm
Were the apps remotely removed from your users' devices? If not, then once
you have republished (as Zsolt suggested), you can use House Ads to drive
your pulled-app customers to your republished apps.
On 15 June 2011 13:40, Zsolt Vasvari zvasv...@gmail.com wrote:
What Google has to do is to
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
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
I don't know yet. I'm still waiting for more accurate data from
Flurry.
Most of the users are using the widget, so they never see any ads.
In this article Quentyn says that the widget is still on his home
screen:
well I have been importing androids from the HK for a while now, I am
shocked on how liberal their market is. Has anyone ever browsed through the
Photography section of the market place? GOOGLE©™ clean that shit up.
Korean porn all over the place.. I am happy that GOOGLE©™ has a magic wand
and
After the list of devices you have the following:
Torch, Light, Camera, Flash, Color, Dark, Bright, Brightness,
Brightest, Lights, Signal, Find Keys, Screen, Effects, brightest
flashlight, Emergency, Warning, Police, brightest led flash,
DroidLight, Maximum, Backlight, Best, Great, Fun, Cool,
Sorry, I only saw the beginning of the list. I take back the 2/3 of
spam comment I made earlier. It's actually more like 95% spam. I can
now categorically say this guy deserved his app removed. No one can
say that they didn't know this was wrong.
On Jun 15, 2:15 pm, Romain Guy
That's a fair enough assessment of what went wrong. But its really not a
justification to someone with an excruciatingly penetrating app (I mean
seriously, he's sending ioctls to drivers to support really old platforms)
for just banning the developer account.
I understand you might not be in
sorry, I meant ... if anyone in their right minds that were trying to push
an otherwise legit app ... ran slighly afoul of a cumbersome TOS , I'd hope
there was some sort of recourse ...
Late, tired, hungry, blah.
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To be clear: I'm not justifying anything and I don't know more about
Market than you guys do. I actually probably know less since I haven't
published an app in a couple of years. I was only commenting on the
discussion about whether that particular app was using too many
keywords. I do not know
tesla
Hey! That's my keyword (TeslaLED Flashlight)!
I do agree that keyword spam doesn't seem big enough of an offense for
your whole account to be deleted.
Any chance one of your other apps did something that could've been
considered malware? Maybe Tiny was just caught in the mix and the
IT’S BACK!!!
They returned the account. And the applications. The app is only 4
positions back in the overall ranking (from 49 to 53).
Just WOW! Didn’t expect them to react so fast. There is still no word
from Google what was the problem.
I've removed the keywords. If this
cheers!
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 12:15 AM, n.a devuni...@gmail.com wrote:
IT’S BACK!!!
They returned the account. And the applications. The app is only 4
positions back in the overall ranking (from 49 to 53).
Just WOW! Didn’t expect them to react so fast. There is
Hey Kevin,
Yes, I've used tesla. Sorry if you feel offended.
Bebbled is completely written by me - it doesn't include any external
libraries. I don't think there is anything which might look like
malware there.
Tiny Compass - it has many permissions including the ones for
location, but that's
Suggestion: rather than using a list of keywords, work them into your
description. So if you really want to list the devices, for example, put
something like this in your description:
Tested on:
G1
Droid
Nexus One
Galaxy S
...
Not only does that look less spammy, but it's more likely to be
On Jun 15, 6:40 am, Zsolt Vasvari zvasv...@gmail.com wrote
Is there anything stopping you from creating a new account, paying the
$25 again and republishing your app? It's not ideal, but since you
have a free app, it's not like you have to migrate the users. If your
app is good, and I
Got the official response from Google:
Your account came under review during an investigation where
individuals spoofed some of your developer details in order to
obfuscate detection. Please be assured it is not malware related, and
we have introduced protocol to prevent such an interruption in
By the way, I sent a CD letter to the author of the app who used my
app's name as a keyword spam, and he promptly removed it.
On Jun 15, 8:04 pm, String sterling.ud...@googlemail.com wrote:
Suggestion: rather than using a list of keywords, work them into your
description. So if you really want
Congrats on getting your app back. this should be a heads up for everyone.
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 12:26 AM, n.a devuni...@gmail.com wrote:
Hey Kevin,
Yes, I've used tesla. Sorry if you feel offended.
Bebbled is completely written by me - it doesn't include any external
libraries. I don't
On Jun 15, 6:40 am, Zsolt Vasvari zvasv...@gmail.com wrote
Maybe Google have blacklisted him and he will get booted as soon as they
work out it is him.
I agree. it seemed like a 20 line fat stacked keyword list that took more
time I am sure than the program took to design. . anyone with a
Yes, I'm using hacks on some devices to start the led. The hacks
include:
1. Using private APIs for some old motorola devices
2. On some old samsung devices I have a native library, which sends
ioctl calls directly to the camera driver.
Everything is being executed in the application's process.
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
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
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
I really doubt it has anything to do with this malaware report, judging on
appbrain page your app/account was removed because you violated Market
Content Policies (http://www.android.com/us/developer-content-policy.html):
Product descriptions should not be misleading or loaded with keywords in
On Jun 14, 8:49 am, a1 arco...@gmail.com wrote:
I really doubt it has anything to do with this malaware report, judging on
appbrain page your app/account was removed because you violated Market
Content Policies (http://www.android.com/us/developer-content-policy.html):
Product descriptions
If this was the reason why I didn't get a warning email? I would have
removed the keywords ASAP. Also, why did they block the whole account
and not only this app? I'm still waiting for some email from them.
On Jun 14, 6:49 pm, a1 arco...@gmail.com wrote:
I really doubt it has anything to do
Yes, it's like a death camp.
The experience for the small developer is quite bad. Unfortunately,
the small developers have made the market as successful as it is
today. I've been with Google from the beginning and have another very
successful app - Bebbled (over 1.3 million downloads), which is
Also, don't forget that there are alternatives to Google's Android
Market: it costs you very little to put the same app on slideme.org,
getjar.com and amazon.com.
Now I have to admit, none of these gives you the exposure that
Google's does, but they wey they treat developers is generally more
So much for the alleged Google slogan, don't be evil! Any company so
proud of their allegedly high intellectual caliber employees (thanks
to their 'selective' hirinc processes) should be able to see quite
easily that such behavior is indeed evil.
The case of keyword relevance is particularly
The TOC would work a lot better if people knew how it was being
enforced.
Alternatively Google can randomly pick developers that are violating
the TOC in some way and ban them.
The other devs violating the TOC in the same way will continue on
their way oblivious to the risk of wining the lotto.
The TOC would work a lot better if people knew how it was
being enforced.
That's like saying I wouldn't have gotten a speeding ticket if I knew where
the police were.
Not knowing what part of a contact you agreed to is being enforced is
irrelevant. What's important is paying attention to
On Jun 15, 4:05 am, John Coryat cor...@gmail.com wrote:
The TOC would work a lot better if people knew how it was
being enforced.
That's like saying I wouldn't have gotten a speeding ticket if I knew where
the police were.
You don't get a life sentence with the speed ticket. Google gave
kool man
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 10:20 AM, n.a devuni...@gmail.com wrote:
On Jun 15, 4:05 am, John Coryat cor...@gmail.com wrote:
The TOC would work a lot better if people knew how it was
being enforced.
That's like saying I wouldn't have gotten a speeding ticket if I knew
where
What Google has to do is to create a separate Tags input field in the
market admin panel, give it some limit and then let the developers
compete. This is the fair way.
In your case, 2/3 of your app description was keywords -- so you were
by far one of the worst violators. Perhaps one of your
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