Al, >>To try and alieviate this AndAppStore switched to a popularity chart which covers the last 7 days only, at least that way apps have to maintain popularity as opposed to just clocking up the numbers.<<
And what a difference this makes. I know that AndAppStore and the Android Market are apples and oranges, but still, my app is in the top 20 on your page and is about the 192.000th(*) in the Android Market. (*) I don't know how to acquire a hard number for the Android Market. On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Al Sutton <[email protected]> wrote: > The problem is that it's a naieve system that only works when all > developers are considered equal. > > Once you get into dealing with brand names the system falls apart and it > also isn't helped by the fact that as Market lists apps ranked by popularity > by default thus helping popular apps stay popular and other less popular > apps have a small window in which they're shown to the user. > > To try and alieviate this AndAppStore switched to a popularity chart which > covers the last 7 days only, at least that way apps have to maintain > popularity as opposed to just clocking up the numbers. > > Al. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* Mariano Kamp <[email protected]> > *To:* [email protected] > *Sent:* Sunday, April 12, 2009 12:49 PM > *Subject:* [android-discuss] Re: G1 failing miserably.. > > I think you can only write better apps and hope that they overtake the bad > apps. That's how the rating system is supposed to work, no? Maybe at some > point in time the Android Market will take the more recent history of > comments/ratings into account with a higher rating and will help to dethrone > the (buggy) incumbents. > > Yeah, this is dreamy, but everything else will fail anyway. > > On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Al Sutton <[email protected]> wrote: > >> My concern is that the the Camera is a "built-in" app, Weather channel >> app is *the* number #1 app in terms of popularity in Market, and snake is >> the number #5 game by popularity, and all three throw up errors like this >> which will make the *average user* feel that Android is flaky by >> association. >> >> I am a developer, I can understand how things like this can happen, but >> this is not a developer-only product we're talking about. This is something >> that is aiming to be as popular as possible and used by everyone from kids >> to pensioners. >> >> So maybe the discussion should be; What do we do? Do we name and shame >> apps to try and get them improved? Do we look at improving the OS to deal >> with situations like this in a better manner that doesn't require users to >> be shown error messages they may not understand?, or do we carry on with the >> current system where we expect users to educate themselves to deal with >> problems like this? >> >> To me the last one isn't part of the path to success. >> >> Al. >> >> --- >> >> * Written an Android App? - List it at http://andappstore.com/ * >> >> ====== >> Funky Android Limited is registered in England & Wales with the >> company number 6741909. The registered head office is Kemp House, >> 152-160 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, UK. >> >> The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not >> necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's >> subsidiaries. >> >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> *From:* [email protected] [mailto: >> [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Mariano Kamp >> *Sent:* 12 April 2009 11:38 >> *To:* [email protected] >> *Subject:* [android-discuss] Re: G1 failing miserably.. >> >> This guy is a developer, and an Android developer on top of that, >> himself. So he is not trying to understand what the dialogs mean. He knows. >> So he seems to be publicly shaming apps for not being up to the expected >> standards (long running operations on the UI thread, forced closes) – and by >> association, the platform. >> >> On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Pd <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> Al, >>> >>> My curiosity got the better of me so I've just downloaded the Weather >>> Channel app to see if I could re-create the problem Eric saw. Sadly I >>> did. >>> >>> With the weather channel app I saw the force close dialog when the app >>> was accessing the Internet for a weather update. I think the problem >>> may be that the Activity is waiting for data from the call for new >>> weather data. I guess the way around it would be to put all networking >>> calls in a service and poll for data when required by the UI Activity. >>> This way the UI doesn't have to hang around for a reply and the service >>> can update the UI when data is ready. Sort of fire and forget. For >>> user friendliness I would put a "Loading data, please wait!" type >>> message in the tab which gets replaced with data when retrieved by the >>> service. >>> >>> Then again I could be miles off the mark ;-) >>> >>> Pd. >>> >>> >>> Al Sutton wrote: >>> > http://stuffthathappens.com/blog/2009/04/11/android-hall-of-shame/ >>> > >>> > Not a happy user, any ideas on what would cause this and how to fix it? >>> > >>> > Al. >>> > >>> > --- >>> > >>> > * Written an Android App? - List it at http://andappstore.com/ * >>> > >>> > ====== >>> > Funky Android Limited is registered in England & Wales with the >>> > company number 6741909. 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