On Thursday, January 20, 2011 6:08:47 AM UTC, Al Sutton wrote: Some of the Google staff do read and respond on some of the more technical > Android mailing lists, but I suspect it's the usual corporate situation of > the information we'd like being covered by an NDA or not being finalised > enough for them to make a reliable comment. >
I'm well aware of the few who post to Android-Developers, apparently in their spare time, chiefly Romain and Dianne. I applaud them wholeheartedly. But neither of them are developer advocates. Like John Coryat, I came to Android from the JS Maps API, where the official group is monitored - and contributed to - by developer advocates who are paid to be there. > Apart from that it's sometimes better to let the conversation run without > interfering just to see where the community takes it as opposed to steering > it in a specific direction. > Sure, no doubt. And the advocates are smart enough to let this happen. But there are also sometimes questions which only the API vendor can answer. When a new version of the SDK ships, we get a few days' attention from Xavier Ducrochet. When LVL was introduced, Trevor Johns was with us for a couple of weeks. But where are they now? By all accounts, LVL doesn't work on the 2.3 emulator. One of these two guys ought to take ownership of that problem... It's a perfect example of something that Google needs to acknowledge, and fix. But we no longer have their attention, and so the affected developers are just left high and dry. To bring this back around to Amazon, I have high hopes that they'll do a better job. I'm participating in their AppStore, and at one point I emailed them with a couple of questions. I got an immediate response saying "We'd like to set up a conference call to discuss this stuff". Which then happened soon afterwards. Let me repeat that: I actually talked to somebody at Amazon ON THE PHONE. When's the last time Google offered to talk to ANYONE about Market issues? String > > Al. > > -- 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.
