On Nov 1, 11:44 am, Diego Moreira Rosa <[email protected]> wrote: > Here you are considering angry users bothered by newly added > permissions (easy to track that), but how about angry users that have > never installed your app in the first place just because it requested > too much permissions? How do you estimate that? The point seems to be > which situation is less harmful. >
Very, very good question to ask. You won't get exact estimates either way. However, you can measure by the following: A user who hasn't installed your product yet will: 1. Just not install it. 2. Read description, etc to find out about the permission and decide to install it after all. 3. Contact you by email and ask why the permission A user who objects to a change will 1. Rush to the Market comments to voice their objection. 2. Read description, etc, to find out the explanation. 3. Contact you by email and ask why the permission. My experience with a change is that very few people are doing 2 and 3 and very many are doing #1. When the permission changed, three people contacted me in a week, vs maybe three or so that asked me about the permissions in three months. By that I'm guessing that more people notice when there is a change. Also, some are complaining about a permission that's always been there - further evidence they are more likely to notice on a change. If you do not need a permission and never will, this is not relevant - I retract that part of my conclusion. If I expect to need a permission later, yes I would rather give up the business of the people that object. On the one hand, they can feel deceived that I changed the permission, though on the other hand they don't have to update. And some people are just more expensive than the price of your app. Despite the hope I like to have for humanity, I have lost all faith that the objectors will a) read my explanations b) believe that I don't want to grab their phone number or call log. c) change their comments in the Market even if the permission went away. But there is a glimmer of hope. a) AppBrain can advertise me without that permission, largely because the AppBrain already has those permissions. b) Flurry AppCircle can advertise me without that permission. c) Everbadge and TapJoy can't, but they are fired. Permission gone. d) I'll ask all my newsletter subscribers to go and comment on something other than permissions. 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.
