On Mon, Aug 08, 2011 at 02:50:38AM -0700, Yahel wrote: > Sorry, don't want to be harsh or anything so please take the following > as constructive criticism.
Ok. > More markets won't help your apps. The Android Market is like Goliath Yeah, that's about what I'd guessed. I was, however, hoping..... And Amazon is out...that $99 yearly sign-up fee is way beyond my ability to handle. > The target audience for your app seems extremely limited, maybe > chemists that work in the carbon field and love their job so much that > they find buckies fun to watch on their leisure time. Gee, I thought it just looked cool. I'd figured that those interested in the background info would read it, others wouldn't. That's why I wanted the good screenshots and added the video. > Beside, I can tell you know how to code and do it well, but you are > lacking, just as I do and many of us engineers do : Graphical, art > skills. That is just not our thing. That is definitely true. Ask me to draw a schematic for a circuit, no problem. Ask me to draw other stuff...problem. > People will download an app even if it's not close to their taste if > the screenshots and the video give them the Wow effect !! Again, that's what I tried to do. I gather I didn't do so well? What do I need to do to improve on it? Can I use DDMS to get a better video screen capture (i.e., full motion) so I don't get stuck with the limitations of my 11-year-old Nikon digital (no macro lens capability, so close-ups are fuzzy, limited duration, 24 seconds, etc.)? My guess is that there is a way, but I don't know where it is.... Or, perhaps there's another utility in the SDK that can do that? That would be great! > Since it is obvious you don't mind hard work, instead of putting said > hard work in publishing on other markets, here is what I would do to > boost your profit on Android : > - Make a game : Interactivity with our phones is key. It is the second > category of the market that has the most downloads I'm still learning...keep that in mind. As I do new apps, I learn more, and get closer to doing a game or other larger app. What kind of game or other app, I don't know....but that's another story (ideas...not easy to come by). Perhaps I should remove all of the tech stuff from the Bouncing Buckies market page (particularly since half of the objects bouncing around no longer even remotely resemble a buckyball)? Maybe just say soccer balls (footballs for everyone outside of the US)? Or maybe, not even get that specific? Yeah, I've got an idea for that right now. Check it out now...see if you like the new description more. Now, here's the tough part: where is it listed? Can people find it in the new paid apps page? Or did the google market folks really do us in the backside like people are saying, by totally changing (as opposed to renaming, as they told me they'd done) the "Just In" category? > - Make a very useful app : Something that you would use on a daily > basis yourself Everything in that category is already out there with lots of great apps...that, or we're back to the niche market. And my remaining ideas (at present) are not in the niche areas, so maybe there's still hope....or not. I don't really know. > - Find a friend(kid at the local school ?) I don't exactly hang around the high schools these days (I'd probably get arrested by someone thinking I'm some sort of perv)....and I don't know anyone at our local (former) community college (who just upgraded to a "college" (still only 2 years, I think). And all of my friends from my intel days are either PCSd or out (and moved back to their home states). My friends these days (all from our local homebrew club) draw about as "well" as I do.... > That's just my two cents. Feel free to disagree :) No, I understand these limitations, I just don't have the access right now to do much about them. My budget is near (and often below) zero. I am not a software engineer...I am a network engineer / intelligence systems analyst. Or I WAS, before cancer knocked me right out of the job market. Now I have to work within my limitations (physical, mental, financial, programming skills that are just beginning to include Java, and so on) and try to do the best that I can within those limits (as I attempt to expand them where I can). > Take care and good luck with your android endeavours :D Thanks. Later, --jim -- 73 DE N5IAL (/4) MiSTie #49997 < Running FreeBSD 7.0 > [email protected] ICBM/Hurr.: 30.44406N 86.59909W My policy on spammers: "Castrate first, ask questions later." -- 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
