You say it is unlikely that an independent developer will invest time/money/resource to make their application "look" professional and provide unique selling points, hell mend them then.
Just because someone got there first doesn't mean that any other developer (Google included) should not be able to produce the same application that a) Looks better and/or b)provides additional killer features. As I said all being equal with an application in terms of funtionality I will go for the one that looks better, regardless of who makes it. If an application that looks like crap but has some indespensible killer feature that I absolutely must have then I would go for that. On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 3:21 PM, JP <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Apr 9, 2:01 am, mike quinn <[email protected]> wrote: > > My personal view is that this kind of competition is a good thing, it > will > > hopefully make developers produce products that have unique selling > points > > and "look" professional. > > Unlikely. We are not competing on a level playing field here. The guy > who created the Finance app did this on his 20% allowance and I > suppose the other apps are built on Company time as well. Gosh, I am > sure they can go out and "recruit" some of their graphic artists to > spend their 20% time on icons and stuff while we have to shell $ over > if we want to do this. If this trend continues, it will just help > drive devels away from the platform. And even if all is done on > devel's own time: As soon as an app with a Google label appears that's > similar to yours, you can pack up. > > ** And all this goes on while the Android Market is screaming for no- > brainer improvements such as a web site and all the other things that > have been discussed here. The guys in the Castle really need to ask > themselves where they invest their time. ** > > And yeah, unless you've noticed already, I find this annoying. > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
