One option is to just open-source it. You may pick up enough contributors to keep it going. Open-source does successfully compete with a lot of large commercial products.
Shane On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Hong <[email protected]> wrote: > As the developer of NPR Podcasts app on the Market, I think I will have > something to say here, since Google Listen is in direct competition to my > app. My app is free for the record. It's buggy and was built about 9 > months ago. I did it in my spare time 'cuz I really like NPR :) > > It has 28,000+ downloads and 8,600+ active users today. But the retention > rate is dropping... fast! > > I neither have the time nor have the monetary incentive (it's free) to keep > the updates coming for the app. > I also don't get paid for 20% of my work time on my personal project or my > boss will kill me ;) > > So starting today, I'm officially suspending the development on NPR > Podcasts app indefinitely. > I'm sad for my decision but I'm glad and hope Google Listen can pick up the > slack going forward. > There are some improvements they can roll out, such as entering custom > podcast URL, etc. > > I will focus more on specialty/niche apps going forward, and spend more of > my time on iPhone and webOS apps. > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
