On Friday, August 19, 2011 5:44:02 AM UTC-4, Christiaan Schoenaker wrote:
Good example. Same goes for many words in discription. I wrote in english
and translated to my native language: dutch. (for i would have a consistent
discription for both languages) but many words were misplaced. They
This is something we have faced in Internet marketing since the beginning
(1999 for me). I can't offer my app platform or any of my IM products in
another language not because of the translation, but because of the fact I
can't deliver tech support in that language.
To get around this, I am
On 8/20/2011 10:35 AM, Chris Lang wrote:
This is something we have faced in Internet marketing since the
beginning (1999 for me). I can't offer my app platform or any of my IM
products in another language not because of the translation, but
because of the fact I can't deliver tech support in
Adding a bad Google Translation is not always better.
Take for example
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.feasy.game.MoleWhack that is
called Mole-Whacker in english, but in the swedish translation it is called
Mole-handtralla. Handtralla is slang for masturbation.
And the translated
On 8/15/2011 12:09 AM, Al Sutton wrote:
You're preaching to the choir on transparency :). I'm convinced it's
an issue, and one that will, in the end, hurt Androids' support in the
community in the long run. The thing I'll need to work on is finding a
way which addresses the issue and is
John,
At the moment I get the impression Android is run as it's own little kingdom
due to it's internally perceived success, so it's abnormality of operation
within Google is, I would guess, a result of that.
You're preaching to the choir on transparency :). I'm convinced it's an issue,
and
I'm currently going through the hiring process for a Product Manager position
at Google (possibly the Android one in London http://goo.gl/NsxlH), and
transparency is an issue I raised as one of the main things I'd like to work
on. The response I received back indicated a concern over
I appreciate the insight, Al.
A couple of points:
1. Of the changes that have been made to Android Market recently, they have
introduced some major problems which could easily have been avoided by
either a) consulting trusted 3rd party devs, or b) better testing. By making
sub-standard
I suspect the current thinking is there's enough diversity in the Market team
not to need to go outside for opinions, and that no matter what changes they
make there'll be people who don't like them.
The original message in the search issue you identified should get
cherry-picked and looked at
Al,
Over the years, I've been part of several experimental programs with
Google, both in Maps and AdSense. With both of those groups, they had me
sign an NDA before letting me in on the program. Some of those experiments
turned into actual releases, others died on the vine but essentially,
On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 4:23 AM, Mark Carter mjc1...@googlemail.com wrote:
I'd like to see a channel of communication opened between a select few
trusted devs (Treking, I nominate you :) ) and someone on the Android Market
team so that some ideas could be run by them.
LMAO - I am fairly
Hi,
My app was released back in June, and it was doing great with a
wonderful adoption curve, when about a month ago it crashed in its
ranking and now is barely moving any copies (about 100 free copies a day).
I figured it was something I did wrong, and chalked it up to experience
-- I'm working
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