On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Dianne Hackborn<[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Disconnect <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> If you look at the original email, it has nothing to do with cyrket >> and everything to do with the market mess. > > What mess? Market uses a lot of criteria for determining which apps to > place first, only some of which are directly visible to you. And I believe > the market people don't want to publish the rules for this because (1) they > change over time to better order the apps, and (2) that would make it easier > for people to game the system.
That is a much more helpful message than "you mentioned a 3rd party site" was. (I'm assuming 'what mess' is mine and the rest is aimed at the OP.) By 'mess' I was referring to the many bugs, glitches, problems, etc. Given the current state of market, I don't think it was unreasonable for the OP to ask if "top" meant "manually featured". (Or even "randomly featured". Or was just flat broken.) As far as the first response.. "You mentioned a 3rd party site." <-- bad answer. Not germane to the actual question. Sounds like avoiding the topic, which lends authority to the OP. "Cyrket is not ours and the stats are wrong" <--- better answer. (And frequently applicable to androlib, unfortunately.) Hard to defend though, if the stats are correct. And you have to open it to spot check first. "Cyrket is not ours, can you reproduce with the official client" <-- almost as good, still implies it might be someone else's fault but now you don't have to check it first. (And if they are wrong the OP finds out himself, posts as much and goes back to doing something else. But it'll backfire if they are correct because you'll be where you started -and- cyrket will have gained some trust points for being publicly accurate.) "Market doesn't primarily use sales or $$ to determine rankings" <-- somewhat helpful and as a bonus actually relates to the original question. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
