-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 5/18/10 08:35 , AndreasEK wrote: > Hi, > > On May 18, 12:06 am, Scott Melton <[email protected]> > wrote: >> I'm guessing (just guessing) that information is not available >> because of personal privacy restrictions? >> >> http://www.android.com/privacy.html >> >> There seems to be fairly restrictive wording with regards to >> intentions and prior consent. >> >> If Google offers(ed) the developer service you request, I would >> authorize Google to send developers that kind of personal >> information. I think many people would, but then, I'm a >> developer. > > I haven't read the privacy statement, but Google is collecting and > sharing the information with Google Analytics without the prior > consent of the web user. So you could make the analogy that this > could be possible as well for android apps. And I share Fabrizio's > view that this would be helpful information to the developer. After > all, you get anonynous usage statistics, not personal information > about who is exactly using your app on which phone for how long. Exactly. BTW, thanks for the pointer to Flurry Analytics, which sounds as a really cool stuff and it's even free; too bad it's not FLOSS and my stuff is FLOSS, so I'd like only to use FLOSS things. I presume I'll introduce a small "ping" to a server of mine that the application would sent e.g. every in a week, including the model name and operating system version. Eventually I could implement a small explicit survey right into the phone.
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