C'mon guys, hasn't always been a "Good-enough with rough edges" company? That's why some of their most popular products used to sit in "Beta" for years. They may have given up the Beta tag, but changing corporate mentality is a lot harder than just saying "we're not going to call a duck a duck".
You only need to look at AppEngine's JPA implementation to see that Market isn't a special case (Anyone for a "High priority" issue which has been open for over 2 years - http://code.google.com/p/datanucleus-appengine/issues/detail?id=86), or think back to when a bunch of people lost their emails and contacts due to a Gmail update (http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-20037554-93.html). If you want to bring it closer to home; How many of us have hit issues with the ADT?, I've been working on tweaking the IO 2011 app for Droidcon UK and I lost count how many times the ADT failed to pick up a change in my project and just brought the old version of the app to the front instead of downloading and running the new version, and as for starting the emulator and then ADT failed to deploy to it, who hasn't seen that? There are some great engineers at Google, but the quality control has always been rough, so to me this is just par for the course. Al. -- T: @alsutton W: www.funkyandroid.com 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 27 Sep 2011, at 18:00, TreKing wrote: > On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 11:19 AM, Peter Sinnott <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm not sure about Google any more. My faith has been shaken by the Market a > little. > > I have to agree. I'll continue using all the free stuff they throw my way, > but have definitely lost a lot respect for Google as a whole after > experiencing developing on the Android Market. It blows my mind that this > level of incompetence is allowed to run rampant. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > TreKing - Chicago transit tracking app for Android-powered devices > > > -- > 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. -- 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.
