People should only be allowed to vote on an app, if they have used the app for a sufficient amount of time. Consumers tend to be people who want everything to work exactly as the whish it would. Though their reasoning is solid, it just doesn't work that way, even with cars, the car doesn't work as you would like it would, but it works the way you have learned it works. So when a person has used an app for 5 minutes and thinks it's limited, he posts a 1 star rating. This might be a correct rating, but using an app for 5 minutes does NOT give you a good idea of what the app is about and how it works. Now if that same user used it for an hour and still thinks it's not that good, well, then the 1star rating IS valid.
Maybe market should prevent comments and ratings from consumers who only have had the application for less then an (or a couple of) hour (s). On 15 mrt, 08:42, Al Sutton <a...@funkyandroid.com> wrote: > I'm afraid I think you're wrong. > > The reason for this is that last week I listed an application on Market > and it's been received pretty well (Mostly 4 or 5 stars, average at the > moment is 4 after 29 ratings), but, the first one star rating came less > than 4 hours after publishing the app from a developer of a competing > product whose comments was "[insert product name] is easier and open > source". So I think you're overestimating the honesty and > professionalism of some developers. > > There are two other 1 star ratings from people who had force close > messages, which I see as a completely valid reason for giving a 1* (even > though I can't for the life of me reproduce them and the app has several > hundred users now who seem happy with the app, and no, it has never used > copy protection). > > I try to follow the folowing rules when rating an app; > > 1* - Fundamental problem (i.e. crashes or needs permissions it shouldn't > such as internet access for a non-net aware app). > 2* - Works but very limited (i.e. missing fundamental feature such as > date tracking on an accounting program) > 3* - Works but is hard to use and/or missing some features I'd like to > see (i.e. Has a complex UI ). > 4* - Works but I find minor things I'd like to see in the first few > minutes of use (e.g. touch screen keypad for a pin entry screen or minor > UI pecularities). > 5* - Works and it takes me a while to think of anything that I'd want to > see for the first few minutes. > > Al. > > P.S. Yes, I also listed it on AndAppStore (of course), and if you want > to see the Market comments they're > athttp://www.cyrket.com/package/com.funkyandroid.banking.android.expens... > (tip of the hat to saurik). > > > > > > Alexander wrote: > > I have been in discussion with a few devs not quite content with the > > ratings/feedback system currently in place on the Android Market, and > > had the following idea: > > > If there was a Developer Only Market, things would be _much_ more > > civil, > > professional, and productive for all involved. Particularly because we > > could > > all relate to each other with empathy, and there would be less > > anonymity, > > especially if it required registration. There would be a less people > > to > > present to, but the quality of user helpfulness would be more > > concentrated. > > It could serve as a place to test release apps before jumping into the > > swarm > > that is the current Market, or a place to seek genuinely constructive > > feedback. > > > Anyone have any thoughts on this? > > -- > > * Written an Android App? - List it athttp://andappstore.com/* > > ====== > Funky Android Limited is registered in England & Wales with the > company number 6741909. The registered head office is Kemp House, > 152-160 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, UK. > > The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not > necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's > subsidiaries. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
