On Mar 24, 9:34 pm, Justin Anderson <magouyaw...@gmail.com> wrote: > The main things people are complaining about are that the descriptions get > edited and they essential have full control over price.
Personally, I rather prefer their descriptions of my apps to their own. I can understand why one would get annoyed if the descriptions started getting misleading, but there is no questions that they have some good writers working on this. As for their control of pricing, I am taking a wait and see approach to this. Early on in the process, I had a sales rep from Amazon call me trans-atlantic in order to resolve some of the issues I had with their store (now THAT is what I call developer support); so I got the full argument/spiel for their approach on the appstore. Essentially what I felt the argument boiled down to is: Amazon knows how to sell stuff (which involves things like handling pricing). You know how to develop stuff. Let us each focus on our core competence. To me, that is a rational and sound argument - assuming both sides are interested in a win-win solution. I know I am no salesman. Any opportunity also carries risks, and in this case I see no problem with giving Amazon the chance to prove their ideas (and if I don't feel the results are worth it, I'll simply pull my apps from their store in future). That being said, there are many issues with their market still; the releasing process has been mentioned (~2 weeks for approval is really too long) and there are lots of other niggling issues (large and small). The difference here is that if you send in some feedback/ questions/issues, you will in fact actually receive a non-automated reply (at least that has been the case for me so far). The fact that they actually appear to listen, gives me hope that many of these issues will eventually get fixed and resolved. In terms of adjusting the app for the market, it worked out fairly easy for me simply by developing the core app as an Android library and then building the market specific parts into separate projects. Your mileage will vary, of course. Regards, Michael A. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
