Agreed.
It would be great if the developer could maintain a per-application
changelog accessible via Market.
That would make the description just that - a description of what the
app is about. The changelog could be brought up by a UI element, the way
user feedback is now.
I know that it's possible to use the version string for that, but it has
certain drawbacks, and is a hack anyway.
-- Kostya
19.08.2010 21:01, TreKing ?????:
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Natalie Hooper
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
wrote:
I personally like the short descriptions - it forces you to think
about what your app really does/how it is useful
It also forces you to omit key features and butcher the English
language to make the most of the limited space.
and as a user it's good to be able to read short descriptions so I
can quickly make up my mind whether an app is worth trying out.
This enables me to actually check out more apps because reading
description of one app doesn't take long.
No one would be forcing you to read the longer descriptions. Read as
much as you need to make up your mind. It would be up to the developer
to write a good, concise, to-the-point description that really sold
the product. But it would be really fantastic if we had that OPTION,
so users can get all the details they need without having to navigate
to the app's website (which I'm sure most people don't do).
It would be absolutely TRIVIAL to allow a longer description but then
have the Market truncate it to the current 325 character and put in a
"Read More" button so the user had the option to read more if the
first bit of text intrigued them enough.
Win for everyone and even the interns that are in charge of the
Android Market would be able to handle the programming required. Well,
maybe ...
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