Yep, I like the scoring comment concept too. That may solve some of the issues I have seen.
Showing development activity is also a good idea, and is probably started by the "last update date" but I would definitively like to see some king of color index showing how much updates the app is getting (green meaning the app is updated quite often, orange for not so often and red for not updated since a while). All in all, dont forget that the purpose of the Android Market is obviously to enable users to get free and paid applications (with good quality) thru 1- promoting the most downloaded ones 2- promoting new ones 3- promoting the "best" ones (there can be many criteria to define what is "best": raw best user score or best user score pondered by the number of downloads...) As far as I know, right now the Android Market is ok for item #1, but item #2 is just so so and item #3 is non existing. I can see also that the Android Market is pushing the "most downloaded" apps and thus applications that have been release since the beginning (and that does not mean that they were of good quality). The newcomers have then much more difficulties to "make their hole" even if they are pushing better quality applications. The "Darwinian" process that should eliminate bad/poor quality applications is obviously not working and in some extent is hurting the whole Android Platform: why would a new user buy a new phone with Android is the applications that are running on it are of poor quality compared to the other phones on the market ? Right now, for paid applications, the Android Market is also doing quite a bad job at enabling users to choose: this poor 325 char description is just a wall preventing them to buy (sure I know that I can publish a free limited app showing what the paid app is doing, but this is not always possible). Fabrice --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
