Moved this discussion to android-discuss (we agreed to move Market-related rants there). Join the group, it's worth it.
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 3:26 PM, markz <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've developed for a bunch of platforms and I'm starting to get a bit > frustrated with Android/Google. It seems like you didn't quite think > things through for developers. > > 1) There's no way to dialog on ratings. Even in a stupid web blog the > author is allowed to comment in a discussion. Ratings should be more > like discussions. Lots of sites do this well, there's no need to > reinvent the wheel. > > 2) There's no way to remove the ratings from dumb shills for other > products who trash your product. > > 3) There's no way to see ratings that are declared as Spam. I'd like > to see what's getting marked as Spam in case it's the same shills > pushing their own products marking good reviews as Spam. > > 4) The score includes all those dumb shills so the star score is > consistently low and the product will always languish. > > 5) We still don't have .33 for our phones. I can't mark something as > Spam yet nor even see what's for sale on Market. This should have been > ready when it rolled to users. Or at least tell us WHEN it will be > ready. This 'coming soon' stuff doesn't do much fo rme. > > 6) All google lookups for doc go to the old doc site. Can't you at > least upgrade your references in search to go to the new doc? > > 7) There's no way to post an update for a non-free product! Wtf is > that? That's ok if you're producing the typical dumb iPhone flash game > but for a real product? > > 8) There's still a huge black hole in the dev for bluetooth, as well > as a bunch of missing documentation for more kernel-related stuff. > > 9) The web interface for market is miserable. Why can't we see all the > apps there? Why don't we have the same set of controls we do from the > phone along with a discussion/blog for ratings. > > 10) Adding a more serious set of rich-text info (with maybe a picture > or two) as a hyperlink from market would be easy and really great for > developers. 325 plaintext characters doesn't do much for anyone. > > For what it's worth - finding this group is hard. The new developer > help page that gets to communities is a mess. > > Mark > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
