On 01/28/2012 06:28 AM, Tim Mensch wrote:
On 1/27/2012 11:43 AM, Nathan wrote:
On Jan 26, 10:47 am, Tim Mensch <[email protected]> wrote:
> And I could have it wave like a flag instead of being in a 3d box.
> That way it's at least Computer Graphics 102 instead of 101. :)
Do report back on whether you make a solid living on one wallpaper
app, or whether you end up making multiple ones.
Honestly, if I were to go down that road, it would almost certainly be
with multiple themed apps, just like the featured one that started off
this discussion. The SEO advantage of that approach is undeniable.
Just by having a search term in the title of your app you're likely to
end up on the first page of search results. Look, for example, at the
first page of the results from Angry Birds. See the game "Angry Frogs"?
When I look up its rank, it shows up as "not in the top 500." You have
to go to page three to find my game (Hamster: Attack!), a game with high
ratings, in the same genre as Angry Birds, and ranked between 105 and
120 in the US for the past few weeks in Arcade/Action (higher in other
countries -- Northern Europeans seem to love Hamster, as well as South-
and East-Asians). Angry Frogs has a lot more downloads than Hamster, but
then apps like "Angry Birds Backup" have only 5-10k downloads (I get
that much per DAY most days) and terrible ratings, but they're also
listed on the first page.
A proper comparison with Angry Bird-type app is if Rovio posted one app
for every level. Imagine seeing this in search result: Angry Bird: Level
1-1 Pig's House, Angry Bird: Level 1-2 High Plateaus, Angry Bird: Level
1-3 Smile Hill, Angry Bird: Level 1-4 Fortress House, Angry Bird: Level
1-5 Stack Castle, Angry Bird: Level 1-6 South by South West, ... and an
endless amount of them. It would be so frustrating, likewise with
wallpaper apps.
If 5 developer released 5 similar-looking apps, that would be a
**competition**. If a single developer released 5 similar-looking apps,
that would be a **sequel**. If a single developer released 200
similar-looking apps, that would be a **spam**.
So there's no doubt that having 200 apps, one for each search term, is
the smarter approach, and having that app be featured seems like
implicit approval of that behavior by Google. Despite what the developer
agreement says about "repetitive" apps. It does feel like that
specifically bars 200 similar screen saver apps -- what else could it
mean? -- but if the reality is that such apps are being FEATURED, and
more importantly, not taken down, ever (barring DMCA challenges), what
conclusions can we come to as developers? Especially when no one at
Google EVER comments as to the specific meaning of those agreements...
Honestly, IMO the only reason Google tolerated this is to increase its
app count so they can say sooner that they have beaten the fruit phone
in number of apps in market. That, and the fact that Google generally
prefers to take a mostly hands-off approach to regulating the market.
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