I am both impressed and dissapointed. I have assumed that business reasons have delayed progress. Market is a significant and tricky part of the platform.
iPhone devs complain about their appstore, and I doubt many users or developers preferred the carriers decks. But Google does not have any excuse for not continuously and rapidly improving Market. It is in everyone's interest. On Nov 20, 11:52 am, "SoftwareForMe.com SoftwareForMe.com" <[email protected]> wrote: > Personally, I'm impressed by how well Google has rolled the Android Market > out. I would very much prefer no bugs, but I'm a software developer so I > know better than to ask for that. I would also like to see it available in > all countries, but I suspect that will come as they figure out how to handle > the payment models in each. > > Piracy is my largest complaint, although, we have our own solution and have > not yet decided whether to implement it. Is it worth a little more hassle > for our users and a few more support calls to cut the piracy? At key points > during our development (after some updates) we've been able to tell that as > much as 50% of our users (using our servers) had pirated software. > > Consequently, we've also noticed that while they are not gone, the support > calls saying "The app won't download" have gone way down in the last few > months, even as sales have gone up. The few we've seen have been spread > across networks (Droid, MyTouch, etc.). Another note on this topic: the > testing we did in our area showed T-Mobile's network to have higher average > bandwidth than Verizon, but of course that's probably more from use than > anything. > > SoftwareForMe.com > Makers of PhoneMyPC > > > > > > On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Hong <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 1) Fix the download issues > > > Regarding this one, I NEVER experienced download problem on my Droid/VZW. > > While my G1 on T-mobile constantly has stalled downloads. > > > Could this be the network issue? Seems so to me. > > > -- > > 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]<android-discuss%2Bunsubscribe@ > > googlegroups.com> > > . > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=. > > -- > Warm regards, > The PhoneMyPC Team -- 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=.
