We have spent significant time & energy and $$ producing several Android applications on the bet/hope it will be able to cut into the iPhone market. Unfortunately little is happening.
- The apps sales are sluggish (the apps are hardly even being pirated as far as we can tell). - ADP cannot be updated to Android 2.0 yet Google has pushed hard for development to be updated to 2.0 and the Droid phone is released. How is one to test? - The Google Market seems ineffective. Consider limitations like the short app descriptions for instance. Google Market has a way to go to catch up with the magic of iTunes. - There is void of two-way communication between Google and the Android developer base so rumor and conjecture and trial and error prevail. - Distribution license agreement is updated in a take it or leave it fashion (with no meaningful explanation or attempt to point out changes). What was that all about? The list of this dings goes on. Understandably it is a huge undertaking for Google/Verizon/HTC/Developers and the others to launch Android and support it to go after the market Apple iPhone has proven. On the plus side the SDK and ADP is obviously something Google has invested heavily in and the basic Android system is, IMHO, superior to iPhone system. So that's all good. Hopefully these developer irritations are part of the growing pains and will quickly be resolved. -- 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
