1. I had considerable problems with rolling out new apps and the copy protection that led to most of my 1 star rankings. Who wants an app with 1 star rankings? No response from google, no documentation. No support. They just throw up the copy protection and let the developers take the blame. Google, unlike many software companies do not have customer (us developers in this case ) technical support staff. Unlike companies like IBM, Sun, etc, they release their applications as betas with no PMR control and roll in fixes they gather from news groups. This keeps their costs down.
2. Consider the apps that Apple is promoting with their media campaign- games, ski reports, cool stuff. Take a meander through the Google Marketplace and the apps that they promote. I don't want to name apps that I don't think are how do you say, compelling to someone, who just bought a 300 phone and pay 85 a month for service. Some are. Some you'll find in a $.99 cent store. Perhaps there are better apps to promote as something that can justify that to a consumer. 3. If you like someone's app, put a ranking and strong comment in for it send the developer an email and let them know. Maybe they'll reciprocate. Tell them what you like and don't like. Otherwise all we get for feedback is "It sucks". More data in the developer console like why things are uninstalled and a distribution of ratings would be great, but the developers can do this as well. 4. Free versus paid. I'll probably continue just to develop free apps. The market is still developing and hopefully when the other handset manufacturers roll out their phones, one of them will actually decide to promote the phone. Again, google releases new software and any technical support is a cost. Promotion? Cost. They won't do it. 5. Hardware performance and capabilities. Some of my users don't get that I'm intentially developing apps that don't fill up their hard drive. They wonder why I do somethings out on a web site and not on the phone. Hmmm... The concept of an internet enabled phone is to integrate with the internet and use the phone to process the data. So chase Symbian's features, all you want, until the hardware gets fixed (i.e. larger harddrive, memory, not a brick), it don't matter. But that'll come. I actually like the phone. Seriously. I get calls fine, voice mail works. Came with a nice sleeve so when i put it in my pocket, the screen doesn't get smashed. All in all not a bad first try. They're getting lots of data on what works and what doesn't work, just like we are. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" 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-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
