My wife just got an updated Market app on her phone [4], and we were looking through it to find the "Just In" category (i.e., the new uploads) -- and we couldn't find it. At all. [1]
Is this the end of applications that promote themselves on their own merits? Just on the tail of an article about developers abandoning Android [2], raising the bar to new applications even higher seems like a bad move. I've been noticing that the "bump" I get from new releases has been getting smaller -- a LOT smaller -- over the past couple of weeks, and I suspect this is the cause (assuming new phones are getting updated to the new market). The new market looks very pretty, but if it's becoming an exclusive club meant only for existing members or people with enough money to pay for advertising to promote their apps, then I would say it marks the end of an era where an eighth-grader can potentially beat all the multi-million-dollar companies to the top of the charts. [3] Tim [1] If it IS there, then it's a lot harder to find, which means (to me) that it's effectively gone. Reading [4] below, they mention a "trending" category, but how do you trend if you have no exposure at all to start with? [2] http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-ios-vs-android-2011-7 [3] http://venturebeat.com/2011/01/17/eighth-grader-knocks-free-angry-birds-out-of-the-top-spot-on-the-app-store/ [4] http://www.businessinsider.com/new-android-market-update-lets-you-rent-movies-and-buy-ebooks-2011-7 -- 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.
