Good luck with Google getting to your problem real quick-like. I was all on board with Android 110%. I've invested months of coding time to learn the OS. I've made several apps just waiting to be released. Now I can't even create a merchant account. I asked why and after several days, still no response (other than the standard auto-response). Heck, they didn't even tell me WHY I couldn't create an account - not to mention their policy says that they WON'T tell me why, either!
If it was just one thing like this, I could overlook it. Sadly, it's not. The number one thing is the software refund policy. It's crap. I wouldn't doubt that as broke as most people in the world are (soon to be), they will use an app for less than 24 hours and return it. Even your subscription service would be enjoyed, then returned. Not that people would want to steal from your company, but people wouldn't want to use torrent sites too, right? I can agree with a 2 hour refund policy. That makes sense. Try it for a little bit. If you like it - keep it. Not 24 hours. Also, the fact that people will need to use Google Checkout (thus limiting purchasers right off the top), then making it easy to use most apps for 'free', could mean a doomed market for android. Lastly, I can't even compare my G1 to the iPhone. "Oooh, the flip-out keyboard is cool," they say. Then that's where the ooh stops. The lack of fluid animations, transitions & overall slick user-interface make my G1 look like a Lite-Brite toy compared to the iPhone. I don't have any choice but to develop for other phones. Maybe 'if' the Android platform fixes its problems, I will reconsider it. But for now its not looking good as a profitable platform for developers. I hope I'm wrong about all this and the Android platform prospers. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
