Maybe Google are looking at this with an "if it ain't broke don't try and fix it" view.
All the reports I've seen show Market is growing fast, has a healthy number of apps, and users are using it regularly. Therefore unless something changes I can't see what would be the driver behind Google making changes. One thing to remember is that Google have saying that Market doesn't make them money, so there is far less of an incentive to respond to developers wishes than for, say, Apple, who get a fair chunk of cash from the 30% they take. Al. -- * Looking for Android Apps? - Try http://andappstore.com/ * ====== Funky Android Limited is registered in England & Wales with the company number 6741909. 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. On 28 Feb 2010, at 00:34, Mark Murphy wrote: > Bob Kerns wrote: >> Personally, I start with the assumption that these are professional >> developers. Sometimes they have hard choices to make. They need to >> know what the customer pain points are. > > As Mr. Coryat indicated, they are aware of those pain points. I can > attest to this as well. > >> Now, I'm not saying wording can't be improved. If you have specific >> concrete suggestions, I think it would be a fine idea to offer them. > > The executives in charge of Android and the Android Market allocate > engineering time from a much smaller team than most outsiders might > think. Different people on the outside have different reasons for > wanting a different allocation of that engineering time -- you want more > spent on the Market, I want more spent on open source builds, etc. > > At least for the two I cited specifically above, the executives in > charge of Android are well aware of the issues -- to use your term, they > would have to be idiots not to, considering all the noise that has been > made in the past year. All the complaints and subsequent media coverage > have not had an externally-obvious impact on decision-making. > > I am completely unconvinced that even a well-written, well-worded > petition alone would make an impact at the executive level, any more > than anything else tried so far has. The petition being discussed is > neither well-written nor well-worded, IMHO. > > For all the chest-beating going on about not seeing the strategy being > employed by Android executives ("They haven't communicated it, so I > won't pretend to understand it."), there is equally little sign of a > strategy by those who care about this issue. Perhaps I'm not looking in > the right places. As a result, to me, this petition comes across as your > garden-variety Internet rant. If there is a bigger plan, of which this > petition is but one part, please point me to it. Until I see such a > plan, it is difficult to take this petition seriously. > > What I would hope the "bigger plan" would entail is changing the Android > Market by making it obsolete -- building a vastly better market, > evangelizing the heck out of it, etc. But, if that were the plan, this > petition wouldn't seem to be necessary, or even prudent. Of course, > there are other plans, such as organizing developers into a cooperative > and using group action for bargaining power, for which something like a > petition might make sense. > > To me, a petition alone will have as much success as do the Washington > Generals against the Harlem Globetrotters. Or, to quote a delightful movie: > > Miracle Max: Have fun stormin' da castle! > Valerie: Think it'll work? > Miracle Max: It would take a miracle. > > As that movie illustrated, miracles do happen, at least in children's > stories distilled from economics treatises. They also happen > occasionally on hockey rinks. > > If, in this case, it doesn't happen, and you want to develop a long-term > strategy and plan for dealing with this issue, let me know. > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) > http://commonsware.com | http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > _The Busy Coder's Guide to *Advanced* Android Development_ > Version 1.3 Available! > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
