What do you mean by technical info?
A short blurb on how to get started with the application?
-- Kostya
20.08.2010 12:43, Natalie Hooper ?????:
On 19 August 2010 23:09, TreKing <treking...@gmail.com
<mailto:treking...@gmail.com>> wrote:
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.
What's the point of adding another, separate field for "technical
notes" instead of just extending the description space and using
that and saying: "Technical Note: Don't be a dumbass" (or whatever).
My reasons for suggesting it are as follows: it keeps consistency
between listings, it reminds the developer to think about whether
there are any technical notes he/she wishes to add, it means the
technical info isn't lost in a sea of descriptions (assuming you can
write descriptions longer than 325 characters), it enables the phone
to download smaller amount of data (the technical note wouldn't need
to be downloaded at the same time as the changelog because they would
be on a separate screen presumably) and it gives Google more
flexibility regarding how they manage their dB because they could
break it up rather than having to hold a big text field (the long
description) for each app.
Fundamentally, it seems that we want the same thing but we have a
totally different approach to the problem. You just want a space where
you can write it all and as we are already provided with a description
field, your reasoning is that if this field had no length limit, you
could put it all in there, and this is true, this would solve your
problem. I want a more organised way of putting that info in because
of the criticisms I constantly hear about the market, namely that the
search facility isn't very good and that it's not as sleek as the
Apple app store. So things like tagging, while undoubtedly more
difficult to implement, would help with searching, and sleekiness, for
me, has a lot to do with consistency across the store, hence my
reluctance for the description field to be used for anything besides
description.
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