At the risk of getting into another long-winded, miscommunicated debate ... =P
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 4:03 PM, Brad Gies <rbg...@gmail.com> wrote: > How many developers have experienced the other person's "eyes glazing over > and their mind shutting down" effect when they are excitedly telling their > friends and family about everything the latest technology/gadget/device can > do. > Actually, when I show friends and family my shiny phone and start emailing / getting driving directions / looking up bus times, etc, etc, they open their eyes with excitement and interest. There's a reason that promotional videos or commercials show you what you can do with the product - like the iPad commercial with the person email, browsing, editing pictures, and playing games. These are all features of the product. No, dully listing every single feature as a list of text is not the best strategy, agreed - but there is unquestionable value in conveying to the user what they can actually do with what you're asking them to pay for. Unfortunately, we're all extremely limited in how we can do that on the Market. On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 4:30 PM, Zsolt Vasvari <zvasv...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Yeah, I don't know if I'd be willing to claim this entire theory is > > validated based on 8 more sales in one week for one app ... > > 8 a day, for a week. OK, that's a different story. > But it the perecntage that matters. Not really. 1 -> 2 and 1,000 -> 2,000 is the same percentage, but a wholly different ball game. > And today it's up to 19 so far. (21 - 2 cancelations) > Nice, congrats. Fixed the errors -- that's what happens when you try to edit your > description in that tiny window on the Market app page. > Use Chrome and resize that stupid window as big as you want =) It's bad enough we have the character limit - I can't believe they limit the window size too! > Yeah, the free version says the same thing, minus the 24hr thing. > No, I meant did you update the app itself, like so users got an update message to download it? > How does somebody get featured? > I think only Google insiders and Jesus know the real answer to that, but I have some theories. 1 - Be Google and promote your own apps 2 - Be a major company that does not need to be featured (and pay for the privilege?) 3 - Win the lottery. 4 - Be picked randomly via this method<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBhrpD1x8zo&feature=related> . > > How did you determine this? Just curious. > > Just by looking at the names in Google Checkout. Ah, makes sense. Thanks for sharing. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TreKing <http://sites.google.com/site/rezmobileapps/treking> - Chicago transit tracking app for Android-powered devices -- 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
