Hi Al, Re updated apps: the alternative in an unmoderated market is that one can simply publish faux updates as often as one wants to push one's application back up the rankings; in the absence of a better idea I prefer Google's current approach to this.
Tom 2009/4/20 Al Sutton <[email protected]> > > Josh, > > He also raised the following points; > > - Presentation of applications > - By default all apps are in one bucket (so apps which generate the 30% for > Google et al. and help a developer pay bills get no extra visibility). > - Apps which developers release updates for have the same visibility as > apps > that developers abandon after a single release. > > Now I know that you can filter by paid or free only apps, but how many of > us > would have found that option easily? > > 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. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Josh Steiner > Sent: 20 April 2009 05:11 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [android-discuss] Re: Comparison of iPhone & G1 app selling > > > Just needed to point out that his criticism seemed to boil down to that the > app on iPhone sold in 1 day as much as the android app did in > 3 weeks. If you take his estimation of deployed devices, 20-to-1 which is > probably in the ballpark... you should see exactly that number of sales. 3 > weeks = 21 days. Hardly newsworthy if you ask me. > > That said, his critsicisms of the Market's flaws are dead on and should be > fixed. > > -J > > On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Al Sutton <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > http://twitter.com/markusN > > > > One app, two platforms, and some conclusions that hopefully Google > > will take on board. > > > > 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. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
