Absolutely agree, and that's kind of my point. If the Market was more full featured, 325 chars for just the "description" would probably be fine. As it stands, though, it's woefully inadequate.
I can imagine that there might be obstacles to adding tags, or comment replies, or most of the other features. I CAN'T imagine that increasing the description size could be very difficult, and that would be a short-term solution. Oh, and I forgot one in my earlier list: - The obligatory "Any bugs? Please EMAIL me!", because users seem to think that I can debug from a comment like "Force closes on Droid. 1*" o_O String On Aug 19, 10:41 pm, Natalie Hooper <[email protected]> wrote: > 2010/8/19 String <[email protected]> > > > It's also that, with the other shortcomings of the Market, you need to > > use your 325 characters to: > > - describe what's new in the latest version > > - respond to comments > > - give special instructions that users may need the first time they > > run your app > > - mention hardware limitations > > - describe this app's relationship to other apps you sell > > ...and more. > > This is a good point but doesn't it mean that rather than asking for a > longer description field, we should ask for other features, such as a > changelog, a way to respond to comments, a technical note field for example? > > As I said, I think the market needs improving. I, for one, would like > tagging because categories are too restrictive. There is no point insulting > me by saying my apps must be simple because I can describe them in 3 > sentences. My point is a DESCRIPTION should be short. However, we need other > features to be able to convey all the information we want to/have to for > users to be able to fully enjoy the app (technical stuff, changelog etc) and > to be able to interact with users (responding to comments, changelog etc). > > For example, one of my apps is a soft keyboard and I have to use one > sentence to explain to people how to select it as their default soft > keyboard (not all users understand how all the settings work). This is why > there should be a "technical note" field (where you could also describe > hardware limitations for example) and I'd rather ask for that than for a > longer description field. > > As for other languages, yes, I agree, Google should adapt to local > particularities of languages and if 325 characters is too low a limit in > russian, then they should set another limit for it. It's all part of > localization. -- 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
