I don't really understand what everyone is complaining about.
Google has provided a development platform, free of charge and no
strings attached, as well as a distribution channel, also free of
charge (almost). It is up to you the developer, to produce a product
and monetize it. If you're app isn't selling well on the app store,
this is your fault, not Google's, not T-mobile's either. It seems like
people were expecting to make money for nothing, and are now bitter
that they cannot, and they blame Google, even though Google has been
very much pro-developer all along. Sure most apps aren't selling that
well on the market, but it has always been very difficult to make
money in the consumer space anyway, having a new platform isn't going
to change this.I don't see any real problems with the market or the
checkout system, it all seems to work fine, except for a few initial
glitches. Sure the market and payment system could have been
implemnted differently, but I doubt this is what is causing the low
sales volume. If an application is truly useful for a group of users,
they wil pay for it. Anyhow props to Google for doing a great job on
Android, it gets a bit tiring hearing nothing but complaints about
Google, when they have developed such a revolutionary platform. I'm
just another Android developer, have a day job doing Android, and a
couple apps on the market which have sold a few copies. I was never
plaiing on the market being a promary source of revenue, I think some
people were, it seems they were delusional.
M
On Apr 27, 3:42 pm, Inderjeet Singh <[email protected]> wrote:
> Can you explain more why *Checkout* is a major issue? From a buyer's
> perspective, they are just using their credit card and to enter that
> information, they need to provide address and credit-card details.
> Presumably, they already have gmail. Once they enter information once,
> the experience is actually fairly smooth for all future transactions.
>
> The buyer experience would have been the same if there was NO checkout
> logo there, but a direct way to provide credit-card details. In fact,
> it would have been worse since they would have had to enter their
> address and credit card details each time they purchased something.
>
> If PayPal was available as an option, the Buyer's experience is
> probably slightly improved. I say slightly because I think it is still
> a fairly small percentage of people who have PayPal accounts (and care
> to use them) compared to having a credit-cards. But again, we are not
> talking about hugely improved buyer experience.
>
> I agree that the best experience is if they could just place it on
> their phone bill.
>
> Inder
>
>
>
> On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 8:45 AM, JP <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Sure we're going around in circles here. Selected issues get fixed,
> > but there's too many potholes in the street without an evident effort
> > to get them fixed. I agree with OP that Checkout *is* a major issue.
> > In the end user's eyes, this is yet another online account to think
> > about without evident benefit over comparable services that
> > everybody's signed up to already (CC, PayPal, ahem). Instead Android
> > Market get's Checkout shoved down the throat, all the while other
> > product lines at Google focus on any smartphone but Android, it seems
> > (yeah we talked about that, too).
>
> > Google I/O's coming up. Personally, I hope that Android will get a
> > push there. We receive great support from engineers in these forums
> > and the Android blog, but there's just too many unanswered questions.
> > Frankly, I expect some decision makers will show and speak to things
> > in a candid way and show to the public where this ship is heading. Not
> > that it's on the agenda or anything, but that's just what I chose to
> > expect. Because it's the easiest and obvious thing to do to keep this
> > ship floating until things have been sorted out. If they can't even
> > get off the dime with such simple things, I'd say there's little hope
> > they'll be able fix the problems at hand and those that lie ahead.
>
> > On Apr 25, 8:01 am, KonstantinDK <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> Ya,ya,ya. We know know that. YOu are right, but It's not new news.- Hide
> >> quoted text -
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