Re: [android-discuss] Re: General Invite for ZappMarket

[Al Sutton]

Very little hurts me :). I was more interested in helping you understand why  your app may not have been selling very well. Our experience is paid apps on Android don't tend to do well. We had a paid & free app on Market where the free download count was several thousand times more than the paid version so in the end we pulled the paid version on the basis that the sales didn't make it economical. But if you can find a solution to getting good paid sales to free downloads there would be a lot of people interested to hear it :). All the best, 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 22 Mar 2010, at 21:38, Abdul Mateen wrote: HI Al, Yes might be this is the problem, but the free version has been downloaded more than 3000+ times in Andappstore and the paid version just not 1 time, yes you are right we developers should support alternative markets also, thats why I have my application hosted on all the three markets. I have full support for alternative markets also, but I am only saying that instead of introducing one another market out there when there are few already that can be supported to make one alternative market much better experienced / with sales. Sorry, if that hearts your feelings.. Thank You, Abdul Mateen. On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 2:19 AM, Al Sutton <a...@funkyandroid.com> wrote: You might find your lack of sales on AndAppStore are related to two comments from people saying your app was defective on the Hero and SciPhone N21 which you haven't replied to (see http://andappstore.com/AndroidApplications/apps/363059!show ). As I said before nothing an alternative market does can guarantee you sales, but if you don't support the alternative markets then the chances of the becoming viable alternatives becomes a lot smaller. It's a chicken and egg scenario. 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 22 Mar 2010, at 21:06, Abdul Mateen wrote: As far as I am concerned the reachability is very much important. like Android Market, if you examine in that manner. I respect your intentions, but uptill now through SlideME I could only sale 1  copy of my application, while in AndAppstore 0 , in Android Market very much, because of Android Market is much reachable than SlideME or AndAppstore, so I recommend SlideME and happy with the action of including in some phone models in some countires. I am much OK with Android Market. If SlideME comes in  countries not allowed by Android Market, that would be great to see. and I think you should put your efforts in promoting SlideME rather then introducing a new Market. If you have the focus on a new market for top developers then , yes I am among top developer of Android application having more than 1.3 years of experience developing professionally for Android, my own application plus for big companies. I would certainly have interest in things for paid apps, and increasing sales in paid applications. If you model is good with increasing sales, then yes this work will be perfect :) On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 9:12 PM, Shane Isbell <shane.isb...@gmail.com> wrote: On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 8:20 AM, Abdul Mateen <abmat...@gmail.com> wrote: I think, SlideME has been growing and having  good contracts as some one named "George" posted in the forum that they have started contracting with Android manufacturer companies to include SlideME client in their manufactured phones. and I think if this happens good. SlideME will be my first priority. Can you explain your plans in  this regard? My plans in regards to getting ZappMarket on-device are none. I'm not sure what your specific reasons are for stocking an app on an alternative market, maybe SlideME is your best choice. My focus is on helping top developers increase sales and to understand and communicate with their users. This involves statistics and reporting, running campaigns with different targeted users (country, operator, etc), mailing lists, getting apps under featured sections on the mobile client, changelogs in description, forward-locking support. A lot of these things may not be important to the free app developer, I don't know. That's up to the community to tell me. But again, ZappMarket is not a general market, it's focus is not on a developer with free applications. Thank You, Abdul Mateen. On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 1:02 AM, Shane Isbell <shane.isb...@gmail.com> wrote: Thanks for the comments. I'm following the release early model to get exactly this feedback. The portal is pretty bare-bones now and paid app support has not yet been released. I do want to point out a big emphasis is on the actual mobile client which looks much, much more professional (than SlideME's SAM) to the end-user, which is the primary interaction. We also have registration through the mobile client, allowing the user a much easier path to purchasing the app. Thanks for checking it out, Shane On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 12:51 PM, CB <cbo...@gmail.com> wrote: Hi! Just wanted to pitch in my two cents:  if you really are targeting paying users (and therefore financed developers and users that like style and substance) you may want to make your website a little more professional looking.  Right now it seems to be huge grey text, a centered logo and some buttons.  Not something I`d risk my app on (at least now). First impressions matter.  I think ZappMarket should clean it up a little. On Mar 21, 1:13 pm, Shane Isbell <shane.isb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey Guys, > > Initially, was intending to just focus on the narrow high-end market for > apps. SlideME and AndAppstore, seemed to take care of the alternative market > scene; so I didn't see much point targeting this segment. > > Recently, I've been following the flubbed release of SlideME's compatibility > support. It looks as though support for Android 1.5 devices is completely > broken. This would affect most of the HTC distributions. One user doesn't > see any apps after 2009. I've also seen reports of Android 2.x devices also > being broken, where the applications won't install. This makes the developer > of the app look pretty bad as well. For four days, this has been going on. > To me, this is amateurish, particularly for on-device distributions. It > reflect badly all around. > > I do keep a frequent eye on what's going on at SlideME and one disturbing > thing I've noticed is that negative comments about SlideME are often deleted > from the forums and comments. If a developer hasn't been paid and complains, > the comment is deleted. Or in another case, a reported bug is removed. And > these are just the ones I've seen. I believe in openness and this just > doesn't cut it. This is not the company I started. It looks to be an attempt > to cover up whatever is going on. > > Even though I left SlideME four months ago, I do feel somewhat personally > responsible, as I was pitching the cause and need of SlideME for two years > prior. I definitely put my money where my mouth is and don't complain about > something unless I'm willing to back it up. > > So I'm going to open up free app invitations for the general community. Just > use 'ZappMarket Wiggle' for the invite code. Paid app features are still > closed beta, so e-mail me for the code to enable those features. > > I know it takes time and effort to build up a community of developers (for > everyone involved) but it doesn't do anyone any good to have their apps > hosted on a half-broken site. If you are interested in continuing beyond > where SlideME has stopped, please join me at ZappMarket and let's rebuild a > healthy, interactive community. > > Thanks, > > Shane Isbell (Founder of ZappMarket)http://twitter.com/sisbellhttp://twitter.com/zappstorehttp://zappmarket.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to android-discuss@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-discuss+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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 android-discuss@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-discuss+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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