>
> You can include a URL in your application description, why dont you put
> screenshots of your app on your own website so that people can view
> screenshots and a more comprehensive description. *"Technically it's
> easy..."
> *


On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 9:10 PM, ShrinkRay <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> You only have to look at the app store, it can be the difference
> between somebody downloading your software or not, even if it's free,
> or a free "lite" version.
>
> The featured applications on the marketplace website have screenshots,
> so why not make say 1-4 half resolution screenshots in either portrait
> or landscape format supported in the store description.  If the
> resolution of the device is an issue (Android devices with different
> resolutions), the marketplace could support uploading screenshots with
> different aspect ratios for different devices and the device could
> request the relevant set of screenshots.
>
> Screenshots do not equal more sales though, particularly with Androids
> (excellent) refund policy.
>
> They only equal another way to generate interest in your application.
> Your application still has to hold interest enough for the user to
> keep the application and not request a refund, or to download the full
> version of the application.
>
> Technically it's easy... any decent web developer could add this kind
> of functionality to an online marketplace application in a day.
> Adding the functionality to the in phone market application should be
> as simple as showing a thumbnailed version and clicking would pop up a
> sub activity letting the user browse the screenshots on the phone.
> Given that, I doubt it's a technical limitation.
>
> I have a feeling this has more to do with Google not having to review/
> approve Marketplace submissions for inappropriate/illegal content than
> any technical issue.
>
> On Mar 24, 12:54 pm, Incognito <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hear hear
> >
> > On Mar 24, 2009, at 7:41 AM, "[email protected]" <
> [email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Come on Google hardly rocket science?
> >
> > Screenshots = sales!
> >
>

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