I agree Greg. And that is why I chased down a few of the "Sucks" posters to find out in what way my widget sucked. Several of them didn't even know what a widget was or was supposed to do yet felt qualified to pronounce it as worthy of the "Sucks" label. So I went back and was much more careful in my 375 characters in the market how to install a widget. I made sure that upon install, it popped up and explained how to install a widget. And surprise. It makes no difference to the number of "Sucks" comments that can be traced back to a user that just bought an Android phone, has no clue and just gets trigger happy on the 1 star. And this is not speculation on my part because I actually conversed with many of these users.
So while my initial instinct was to just roll up my sleeves and make my widget "Suck" less, I would advice that once you get it fully functional, you'll get diminishing returns on your rating from continued efforts to make it not suck. This applies for Widgets. I can't comment on other apps because I only have one non-widget on the market. The other interesting part I'll note is that all my stuff on the market is free! So if it does exactly what it claims to and costs nothing, does it deserve 1 star ratings because of things it doesn't do? "Would be better if it swept my laneway" (1 star) Garnet Ulrich On Mar 22, 4:35 pm, Greg Donald <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 2:10 PM, kanatacrude <[email protected]> wrote: > > Oh yah, "Sucks" is my favourite comment to receive on my widgets. > > Maybe Google could just use a blacklist of words which cause the > > rating to be ignored from the average. > > I wouldn't want this. > > Why not try harder to build apps that don't suck :) > > -- > Greg Donald > destiney.com | gregdonald.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.
