As often, Mark, your post has made a valuable contribution to this thread. You are quite right: he is not limited to Android Market. None of us are. I think I already have a reputation for pushing alternative markets at every opportune moment, and possibly at inopportune as well;)
But I do have to admit: for most users, the Android Market really is the first place they turn to for finding apps. For many of those, it is the first and last. So though it is not the only one, it is big. A deficiency in the Android Market is a handicap to all developers for this reason. So yes, I too would like to see this limit go away, or be modified to something more reasonable. And although it doesn't generate much pressure, I do still encourage people to put their products on alternative markets like http://slideme.org and http://getjar.com to encourage Google to see the error of their ways. On Aug 20, 4:23 pm, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> wrote: > TreKing, I haven't read all the posts on this thread. Generally > speaking, I agree with your sentiment that the 325-character limit is > artificial and, well, limiting. That being said... > > On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 6:46 PM, TreKing <[email protected]> wrote: > > And you had no other resources at your disposal to do all this marketing > > right? > > ...this is where you go off the rails. > > Every seller of products and services on planet Earth has access to > the most dizzying array of marketing tools in human history. Some cost > money, some do not. Some vary by geography of the marketer, others > vary by the geography of the audience. Some require skills that the > marketer may not have and would have to hire. Hence, the subset of > that array of marketing tools available to any given developer will > vary, based on the developer's resources, location, and so on. > > Exactly one of these is the Android Market. > > Any Android developer wishing to have success needs to recognize that > the Android Market is but one piece of what needs to be a larger > marketing plan. Any marketer that says "Who-hoo! We got in the print > Staples catalog! The marketing is complete!" will get fired. Any > developer that says "Who-hoo! We got in the Android Market! The > marketing is complete!" deserves a similar fate. > > Could the Android Market be better? Absolutely. It could be as good as > the iPhone App Store, for example. And there are legions of iPhone > developers who aren't getting the sales they think they > deserve...because they're considering the App Store to be the be-all > and end-all of marketing and distribution. And it's not, particularly > with a catalog of 250,000+ competitors and substitutes. > > > You did it all with 325 characters, two screenshots, and some savvy? > > Probably not. But you're not limited to those, either, unless you > choose to be, and then you have nobody to blame but yourself. > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons > Guy)http://commonsware.com|http://github.com/commonsguyhttp://commonsware.com/blog|http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > _The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development_ Version 3.1 Available! -- 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
