This is NOT correct. If the authorization fails, the application does NOT get downloaded. Only when the user enters a correct credit card, the download begins and the refund window starts.
Inder On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 7:29 PM, Eks <[email protected]> wrote: > > There is another bad part in Android Market. > > > Look here at the Google Checkout transaction > > Order history > Mar 27 4:46 PM Order cancelled You cancelled this order. > Reason: Other (describe below) > Message sent to customer: Refund requested from phone. > Mar 27 4:45 PM Authorization failed The authorization of the > customer's credit card failed. Google has sent an email instructing > the customer to update their card. If they fail to provide a valid > card within seven days, > this order will be automatically cancelled by Google. > Mar 27 4:45 PM Order received You received a new order. Google has > sent the customer an order confirmation email. > > > Note that even if the authorization was failed, user was able to > download the app. Google says that since the authorization is failed > the order will be cancelled in 7 days. Means some users can use an > invalid credit card to download the app and use it for 7 days. > This is bad !!! > > > > > > On Mar 27, 7:18 pm, Eric Mill <[email protected]> wrote: >> Sorry, I guess I wasn't clear what I meant by hands off. I meant that >> they may not want to take responsibility for screening the market for >> objectionable images, for the same reason they don't put every app >> through an approval process before it's posted -- which is to be hands >> off, from a control standpoint (not from a feature development >> standpoint). >> >> Apple's approval process is rigorous, opaque, and even many happy >> iPhone owners would call it too authoritative. Apple has decided to >> be hands-on with their Store to ensure quality across the board, at >> the cost of creating a repressive bureacracy. Google is creating a >> simple platform with minimal oversight, which is a whole lot closer to >> the Real Internet than Apple's whitewashed version. >> >> That's all I meant by "hands off". >> >> -- Eric >> >> >> >> On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Ed <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > "because that's the whole point of the Market, is that Google is hands >> > *off*." >> >> > Eric, >> >> > There is a fundamental business concept that is missing here. It's >> > called listening to your customers ("Voice of the Customer"). What >> > that means is that you can create all sorts of cool gadgets in a >> > really rad office space like Xerox did in the late 70s, but still miss >> > the boat because you are being "hands *off*" (like Xerox did). Apple >> > ended up doing really well by stealing Xerox's ideas. >> >> > --Ed >> >> > On Mar 27, 8:47 am, Eric Mill <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > 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. >> >> >> Sorry, but you have no idea how technically easy it is or isn't. >> >> Being a web developer has nothing to do with Android application >> >> programming. And yes, it may also be a situation where they don't >> >> want to have to screen everything people post, because that's the >> >> whole point of the Market, is that Google is hands *off*. Stark >> >> contrast to iron fist Apple. >> >> >> I'd love it if screenshots start appearing on the Market. Try >> >> suggesting it constructively and in a way that emphasizes why it >> >> should be a greater priority to the Android team than the bajillion >> >> other things they're working on as they try to fundamentally alter the >> >> mobile space, rather than railing about how they must just be lazy, >> >> and you might get a better response. >> >> >> -- Eric >> >> >> > 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! > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
