JP, thanks for some nice idioms (right of the bat was really new for me as I'm not native speaker ;-)).
There is on thing that I don't understand and it is: why Google clearly does not say "We created Android as one big billboard site". It is also strategy (I don't like it, but my opinion is not important). People that like ads (both users and developers) would know what are the rules and can live with it. I (and maybe some others) will go to different OS and there is no problem. I like AdSense on web pages but I can't bide it in mobile apps as many of them have ads without context and on place where it is annoying. Also profit from mobile ads is really poor. But current situation when only official expression is *We're working hard to add more countries, so please stay tuned! *at the page ( http://market.android.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=143779) is definitely not credible for me. I'm losing hope that there is a chance to get at least initial investment to developer phone and android market fee back and I feel scammed. Tom On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 2:35 PM, JP <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Jun 19, 2:32 am, Tomáš Hubálek <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I'm frustrated from current situation and I guess I'm not alone > > Tom > > You must be new here, as they say... > What's going on with Android Market is a function of what makes Google > click. And that's selling ad space. They make like 99.9% of their > revenue from that. Put all the blogs and T-shirts and Jaguar using > Apps aside - at the end of the day, that's all they are interested in. > Chrome and Android come into play to break Google's dependency on the > Mozillas, Microsofts, Apples, Nokias and Motorolas in the world in > their ability to reach eyeballs. All they want to accomplish with > efforts like Chrome and Android is to mitigate the risk of being shut > out by a third party. So they go for vertical integration. Right off > the bat now, Android is central to Google's interests only to the > degree that they get it on devices. And Market really only needs to be > good enough to effectively distribute updates of Maps, Voice, Tracks > and their other warez. If you think it's essential that enabling > independent devs would equally be important - you're not alone. It's > just that Google obviously don't seem to agree. Or not as much, > anyhow. > It's not like committing to Bada, Ovi or iTunes would suggest that one > could quit his or her dayjob quite yet. But at least with these guys I > get the sense that the originating brand's fate is tied to the success > of independents to some tangible degree. At this point, I'm pretty > much only waiting for the Ovi Maps API to come out of Beta, and I'll > spend some time with that I'm sure. It's a shame really, the Android > SDK is great, but that's where things stand these days. If you have a > vision in mobile apps... I'd say, grow out of focusing on particular > platforms quick. If the effort of developing your vision on all these > platforms seems too overwhelming, I'd say you don't really have a play > the way things stand in mobile these days. > > -- > 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%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en. > > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tom Hubalek ([email protected]), http://blog.hubalek.net/ http://facebook.com/thubalek, http://twitter.com/thubalek http://www.linkedin.com/in/thubalek -- 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.
