a horror story for sure. 6M users is a huge hand full to just be dumped like a rock. Like I wrote a app that calculates CDC Flu XML data from live datasets and built internal databases for custom reporting of the data and and a whole lot more and I have yet to have a single user download the app.. . seems a flashlight app that gets 6million users is the way to go.. I still will stand strong on my stance that you should just move on and go to a more "satisfying" project.
http://fluapp.challenge.gov/submissions/3027-cdcs-flu-weekly-sneeze-in-your-sleeve use your 20+ devices to good work and help heal the world. Lenn Dolling On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 5:50 AM, Yahel <kaye...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm sorry to be that guy, but you really should start thinking that > they really just deleted everything about your account, not just hid > it somewhere and are able to put it back up for you. That's the thing > about general intervention and not case by case intervention : Fire > and forget. > > I really do hope for you that this time the Android Market Team has > been a little more profesionnal and kept backup but I really wouldn't > count on it if I were you. > > Come back to tell us what happenned if they ever get back to you. > > Good luck mate. > > Yahel > > > > On 14 juin, 14:29, "n.a" <devuni...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Apple, at least, gives you 5 days to fix your issues and doesn't > > suspend the whole account. > > This is a bad situation to be in. I've sent an e-mail to android- > > market-support AT google.com but if they answer me after 2 weeks all > > will be lost. I'll lose my ranking position and will never be able to > > come back. A whole year of investment deleted in a single click. > > > > On Jun 14, 1:44 pm, Yahel <kaye...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Sorry that you only found out now about google's ways of doing things. > > > > > That is true to everything Google and that's the best advice I can > > > give you : Never ever rely on one of their ecosystems to be your only > > > source of income. > > > > > Actually you can broaden this : Never ever rely on anyone ecosystem to > > > be your only source of income. > > > > > But it is especially true for Google : You see, they seem like a huge > > > company making billions of dollars in benefice each year so you'd > > > think they would have a huge staff helping their users, communicating > > > before taking decisions, warning people of services disruption, not > > > pushing piles and piles of bugs into the Android Market each and > > > everytime they upgrade it since there is a good 10 000 developers > > > using it. > > > > > But the truth is : For every project Google launches the team that > > > works on it is only of 2-6 people. Only engineers, no designers, no > > > graphists, no supervisors, no usability engineer. And with such small > > > teams for applications that have tenth of thousands users you can > > > easily see how they have no time to treat things case by case. > > > > > So what happened to you is something like this : An engineer found out > > > that one malware used permissions XX and a specific access to i/o via > > > NDK. So since he has no time for these foolisheries he just pulled all > > > the apps that have these specifics in their code. > > > > > - "That's 10 apps and there is one with 6,5 millions downloads and a > > > five star rating and no complaints" > > > - "Yeah I don't care we don't have time for this, pull the plug !!" > > > > > For what it's worth, with a delay of two weeks I was able to have a > > > contact with the Android Market team once on this mail address : > > > android-market-support AT google.com > > > > > I really feel your pain and I hope you get it sorted out. > > > But be sure to start several other apps for iphone as I did and find > > > other revenues that do not depends on someone else framework. > > > > > Good luck. > > > > > Yahel > > > > > On 14 juin, 10:57, "n.a" <devuni...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > Hello Guys and Google, > > > > I'm the developer of the most popular flashlight application on the > > > > Android Market - Tiny Flashlight + LED (over 6.5 million downloads, > > > > top 50 in the overall applications ranking). > > > > > > Today I found that Google have deleted my developer account without > > > > any notice and removed Tiny Flashlight from the market. I saw the > news > > > > that Google removed 10 malware apps from the Android Market ( > http://phandroid.com/2011/06/14/google-removes-10-new-malware-apps-fr... > > > > ) and decided to write you. > > > > > > Seems like I've been affected by this and I hope this will be > resolved > > > > soon, because I have invested a lot in Tiny Flashlight. For the one > > > > year since Tiny Flashlight has been released, I've managed to create > > > > one of the best android applications on the market. Although a > > > > flashlight application seems easy to create, it's actually quite hard > > > > on android, because the different hardware vendors have different > > > > camera drivers and this requires a lot of workarounds just to start > > > > the camera led / flash. This takes a lot of time and investment. In > > > > the last 4 months alone I had to buy over 20 different android > > > > devices, spend huge amounts of time finding a way to start the led on > > > > these devices and making the whole process trouble-free for the user. > > > > I've also gone a step further. Tiny Flashlight is one of the few > > > > applications, which supports all android versions on the market - > 1.5, > > > > 1.6, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.0, and 3.1. It's the only flashlight > > > > application, which still works on Motorola Quench / i1 / Backflip > (all > > > > Android 1.5). > > > > > > Tiny Flashlight has become my primary source of income and the > > > > investment I've made is huge. Every single line of code has been > > > > written by me (except the Admob, Millennial Media, and Flurry SDKs, > > > > but I think they are respectable companies and would never allow any > > > > malware in their distributed SDKs). > > > > > > I just can not afford to make the tiniest mistake with Tiny > > > > Flashlight, because it's one of the top applications on the market > and > > > > I have over 4 million active users and I've invested my life into > > > > this. > > > > > > I’m angry that Google never contacted me. They just deleted the whole > > > > account. I hope that they will fix it soon, before I lose my users > and > > > > ranking position. > > > > > >http://www.appbrain.com/app/tiny-flashlight-led/com.devuni.flashlight > > -- > 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 > -- 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