On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 08:17:55AM -0700, Adam Ratana wrote: > I sympathize with Spooky here as I have also just recently launched some new > Live Wallpapers, and while I did see them in "Just In" on my phone market > (doesn't have the new market client yet) -- and some users have indeed found
Here's my understanding of how it works. If this is incorrect, someone please correct me. "Just In" is gone. I got that directly from Market support. Market support guy told me that "Top New Paid" and "Top New Free" *ARE* "Just In". HOWEVER, what I've heard from other devs, in other forums, is that this is anything but true...and my observations confirm the latter. I released my LWP app Friday at approximately 1700 local. It was visible just long enough to get one paid install about 4 hours (+/- a few minutes) later. After that, however, it was gone. I looked through both the Top New Paid and the Apps//Personalization (there is no upload category for Live Wallpapers now, though the category itself is still there). It was not in either listing. Needless to say, installs ceased...dead. For some reason, people can't see my app anymore. I can't imagine why; they should just "know" it's there and buy/install it, right? So, why did this happen? Here's my theory (again, based on other posts in another forum, in this list, and my observations): I uploaded my LWP. It started out with zero downloads and zero ratings. That does not qualify as Top anything, nor does the one download I got before it vanished. Therefore, next market update, it's gone. It's back online now...but not in the Android/google market.... Will I get any sales there? It can't hurt, given that I'm hardly likely to get any from the usual market. Yeah, I'm extremely frustrated by all of this. Sorry, but that's just how it is. I feel like I've been denied all hope of ever keeping any new app that I build listed on the market. And from what I've read, I HAVE been. Someone PLEASE explain how this is a Good Thing for me or for any other individual developer without a pre-established history of massively-popular apps.... And how are we now supposed to work towards eventually (hopefully) establshing that history, when, by google's design, now, our apps are only visible for a few hours? Later, --jim -- 73 DE N5IAL (/4) | Peter da Silva: No, try "rm -rf /" [email protected] | Dave Aronson: As your life flashes before < Running FreeBSD 7.0 > | your eyes, in the unit of time known as an ICBM / Hurricane: | ohnosecond.... (alt.sysadmin.recovery) 30.44406N 86.59909W | -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
