Hi, Thanks for the reply. A little clarification...
a) Dumb shills: I get the following review: Not for HTML ebooks. Use Steel Instead. Absolutely horrible; This is the third time he's updated his review and it's always awful but it keeps bumping to top. Meanwhile the consistent 5's I've gotten lately from real people get pushed down the stack. b) updates. As I understand it paid applications cost money for each update. More complicated apps than games have to go through rev cycles (I'm on version 8) and I can't charge for those (except maybe annually and there's no way to do that). The fact is that even for paid apps it is worth it for a developer to buy his competitors and trash each of them consistently. In this environment that's the kiss of death quickly for an app imho. Have you considered banning those people? Thanks, Mark On Mar 10, 12:32 pm, Stoyan Damov <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm forwarding this to android-discuss because we agreed to move > Market-related rantings there. > Other than that, +1 from me. > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: markz <[email protected]> > Date: Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 3:26 PM > Subject: [android-developers] Market and Developer Frustration > To: Android Developers <[email protected]> > > 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- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
