> > 2. Charging a *small* fee per app would actually work, without unduly > hurting most legitimate devs. Maybe $5 or $10 per app; if your app > isn't worth $10 to you to list, how serious can you be? OTOH, even > such a small fee would stop the spam dead in its tracks. There might > be a few legitimate edge cases which would be adversely affected, but > it's worth considering nonetheless.
This could be a good solution, at least it would keep a few spammers out and I would not mind at all to pay such a small fee to publish my app even if I do it for free. > > 3. Improving the discoverability of quality apps on the Market, and > letting the crap fall to the bottom. This seems like the best > solution, if it's done well - but so far, Google has shown itself to > be either unwilling or unable to do this. I like this a lot. Appbrain does this in their version of the market (which I honestly use more than the Android one). They have pretty well managed to filter out spammers and bring up some good apps that would not be easily discovered. http://blog.appbrain.com/2010/03/appbrain-launches-automatic-filtering.html Surely Google could come up with a even better system, right? Alberto -- 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
