Also, don't forget that there are alternatives to Google's Android Market: it costs you very little to put the same app on slideme.org, getjar.com and amazon.com.
Now I have to admit, none of these gives you the exposure that Google's does, but they wey they treat developers is generally more professional, though I have been surprised at the plausibly justifiable complaints I have heard about Amazon. On Jun 14, 3:44 am, Yahel <[email protected]> wrote: > Sorry that you only found out now about google's ways of doing things. > > That is true to everything Google and that's the best advice I can > give you : Never ever rely on one of their ecosystems to be your only > source of income. > > Actually you can broaden this : Never ever rely on anyone ecosystem to > be your only source of income. > > But it is especially true for Google : You see, they seem like a huge > company making billions of dollars in benefice each year so you'd > think they would have a huge staff helping their users, communicating > before taking decisions, warning people of services disruption, not > pushing piles and piles of bugs into the Android Market each and > everytime they upgrade it since there is a good 10 000 developers > using it. > > But the truth is : For every project Google launches the team that > works on it is only of 2-6 people. Only engineers, no designers, no > graphists, no supervisors, no usability engineer. And with such small > teams for applications that have tenth of thousands users you can > easily see how they have no time to treat things case by case. > > So what happened to you is something like this : An engineer found out > that one malware used permissions XX and a specific access to i/o via > NDK. So since he has no time for these foolisheries he just pulled all > the apps that have these specifics in their code. > > - "That's 10 apps and there is one with 6,5 millions downloads and a > five star rating and no complaints" > - "Yeah I don't care we don't have time for this, pull the plug !!" > > For what it's worth, with a delay of two weeks I was able to have a > contact with the Android Market team once on this mail address : > android-market-support AT google.com > > I really feel your pain and I hope you get it sorted out. > But be sure to start several other apps for iphone as I did and find > other revenues that do not depends on someone else framework. > > Good luck. > > Yahel > > On 14 juin, 10:57, "n.a" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hello Guys and Google, > > I'm the developer of the most popular flashlight application on the > > Android Market - Tiny Flashlight + LED (over 6.5 million downloads, > > top 50 in the overall applications ranking). > > > Today I found that Google have deleted my developer account without > > any notice and removed Tiny Flashlight from the market. I saw the news > > that Google removed 10 malware apps from the Android Market > > (http://phandroid.com/2011/06/14/google-removes-10-new-malware-apps-fr... > > ) and decided to write you. > > > Seems like I've been affected by this and I hope this will be resolved > > soon, because I have invested a lot in Tiny Flashlight. For the one > > year since Tiny Flashlight has been released, I've managed to create > > one of the best android applications on the market. Although a > > flashlight application seems easy to create, it's actually quite hard > > on android, because the different hardware vendors have different > > camera drivers and this requires a lot of workarounds just to start > > the camera led / flash. This takes a lot of time and investment. In > > the last 4 months alone I had to buy over 20 different android > > devices, spend huge amounts of time finding a way to start the led on > > these devices and making the whole process trouble-free for the user. > > I've also gone a step further. Tiny Flashlight is one of the few > > applications, which supports all android versions on the market - 1.5, > > 1.6, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.0, and 3.1. It's the only flashlight > > application, which still works on Motorola Quench / i1 / Backflip (all > > Android 1.5). > > > Tiny Flashlight has become my primary source of income and the > > investment I've made is huge. Every single line of code has been > > written by me (except the Admob, Millennial Media, and Flurry SDKs, > > but I think they are respectable companies and would never allow any > > malware in their distributed SDKs). > > > I just can not afford to make the tiniest mistake with Tiny > > Flashlight, because it's one of the top applications on the market and > > I have over 4 million active users and I've invested my life into > > this. > > > I’m angry that Google never contacted me. They just deleted the whole > > account. I hope that they will fix it soon, before I lose my users and > > ranking position. > > >http://www.appbrain.com/app/tiny-flashlight-led/com.devuni.flashlight -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. 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