And the good aspects of the current market would be? Besides not having an Apple-style lock-in?
Seriously -- if I were a Google engineer, I would be a little offended by your message. Personally, I give them more credit for being adults, and not needing their feelings protected. Nobody is calling them idiots. I'm not surprised that they're at least aware that these issues exist, and that developers are unhappy. But there's a large gap between awareness, and understanding the impact on your users, to making it an actual priority, and finally to communicating it! If a professional developer has unhappy customers, he WANTS TO KNOW IT. He wants to hear as much as he can about it. Personally, I start with the assumption that these are professional developers. Sometimes they have hard choices to make. They need to know what the customer pain points are. Remember, too, that "developers"in this context includes "product marketing" -- an essential ingredient for product success. The fact that the market has progressed so little clearly indicates an operating set of priorities that many of us feel is holding back the platform as a place to develop applications for. This is just the sort of problem that product marketing should be addressing. Now, I'm not saying wording can't be improved. If you have specific concrete suggestions, I think it would be a fine idea to offer them. I just don't think it helps much to criticize it as being "too negative", out of fear of offending Google Engineers. Try using the metric of "effective communication" -- which sometimes includes effectively communicating an uncomfortable message. Maps.Huge.Info (Maps API Guru) wrote: > I just read your "final draft" document and I have a strong criticism > as to the wording. > > A petition like this is supposed to garner support for your ideas, not > alienate the very people who it's aimed at. The preamble of this > document is too negative, accusatory and essentially would derail the > very purpose. As far as I can see, dropping it completely would be > better than including any of that wording. Many of the "demands" > listed have the same negative tone. I believe these would be counter > productive and lead to the Android people either ignoring it or even > worse, taking it in the wrong way. > > I know for a fact that the Android team is aware of virtually every > short coming of the market, they are aware that developers are unhappy > with it and they know it needs improving. Rubbing this document into > the eyes of the Android team will do nothing for the cause except > widen the gap between the Android team and app developers. > > A document such as this should be one that makes suggestions while > also pointing out the good aspects of the current market. You may have > heard the term "You can catch a lot more flies with honey instead of > vinegar." You might take this into consideration. > > -John Coryat -- 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
