I believe there was a recent sweep of the market. And i think there was also a market update. So this maybe some of the reasoning for this.
On Nov 22, 4:45 pm, "Jonas Petersson" <jonas.peters...@xms.se> wrote: > Hi Kostya, > > On 11/22/2010 09:00 PM, Kostya Vasilyev wrote: > > > I've am seeing some pretty mysterious crash reports in the Market > > Console lately. > > [...] > > I am wondering if anyone else is seeing strange errors like these, and > > whether they can be caused by devices that have really low-quality > > firmware, either custom, or on devices that were not verified by Google. > > I've not seen your particular ones, but I certainly see odd stuff - like > 6 months old versions of my free apps crashing on 1.0 firmware > (seemingly G1) as well as on seemingly lab boards. Some of these apps > are very much tailored for use ONLY in Sweden, but they still seem to > originate from Spain, Russia, China and the like... > > My best guess is that there is a fair amount of people who just randomly > rip apps from the Market and use them to "monkey test" their > hardware/firmware with. > > Initially I was curious, I've given up to try to make sense of it. > Sometimes their extreme test cases are actually somewhat useful - I've > caught a few odd states (the last one was the system be unable to select > an image - seems unlikely, but...) > > My few eurocents / Jonas -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
