On Feb 24, 4:50 am, Mark Carter <[email protected]> wrote: > > Let's suppose I decide to unpublish my app from all non-english speaking > countries to prevent such negative feedback. How many support emails would I > get from people complaining why they cannot find my app? Maybe this would > increase the incentive for piracy? Also what about all the english-speaking > people living in non-english speaking countries? The key point here is that > country and language are not synonymous. > Great discussion, both of you. I'm agreeing with both of you.
One thought comes to mind: Isn't English the official language for personal computing in Japan? Anyway, I'm having a similar dilemma. I wish that, from the start, I'd made my app available to select countries instead of all. Too late for that now. Now if I take it off the Market for countries where it has been before, what will happen? For me, localization is a small part of the problem. My app has okay data for the whole world, and great data for select countries. it often depends on what data I can get from their governments. I think I'll get higher ratings if I take, for example, Ireland off the list, but will that be balanced out by support costs of people from Ireland who can't find the app or may have already bought it? And are there people in Ireland who are just fine with the more basic data, or the third party tools which I can recommend for getting the data? There must be, if some people have bought the paid version. And as for whether the comments are fair, no they are not. But people look out for Number One, themselves, when they make comments. And some individuals think that comments are a good place for a feature request (I don't). I've seen comments to the order of "This is absolutely useless for my rather unusual use case because it doesn't have this obscure nitpicky feature. 1 star". Nathan -- 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.
