Upvoted. Curious about your take on Google Market's change from 24 hours to 15 minutes refund period. I'm not a developer (yet - I'm plodding my way through "Hello, Android"), but as a user, I feel like 15 minutes is too little time to get a reasonable sense of whether an app actually works. Two hours might be fine, but reducing the time to effectively nothing, in my opinion, just pushes the people who would otherwise try to get a refund on software they actually found useful to pirate it, and push the users who honestly wanted to know whether an app worked for them before paying for it to simply avoid anything that isn't free-as-in-beer. I think an ideal solution would be to give the developer the ability to define a refund period project by project. I don't really deal with this issue personally, since I tend to avoid the Market and either use F-Droid, or build from source. Google meeting your demands would probably make me a lot more likely to use the Market. ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rich Jones [] Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 9:05 PM To: Discussion of Free Culture in general and this organization in particular Subject: Re: [FC-discuss] The Android Developers Union
pssssttt - and if you guys like upvoting: http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/duplicates/fvh75/7_demands_by_the_android_developers_union/ thanks! R On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 9:02 PM, Rich Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, FCers! > > I and many others have been fed up with Google because of their > lackluster support for the Android market. > In response, I am forming a Union of Android Developers. The demands > are laid out here: http://www.andevuni.org/ > This is the statement: > > We, the members and supporters of the Android Developers Union, > are fed up with the conditions of the Android Market. We are tired of > being treated like sharecroppers on Google's digital plantation! We > have compiled a list of seven demands which Google can implement to > improve the Market. Implementing these demands will absolutely improve > the working conditions for Android developers, thereby improving the > Android ecosystem and giving a better experience to our customers. > If our demands are not met, we will move our applications to > alternative marketplaces or the web, cease Android development in > favor of other more open platforms, we will dissuade other developers > from developing Android projects, and we will work tirelessly to > counter any of Google's hypocritical claims about Openness in the > media. > These are our demands! They are simple and they are attainable, so > we hope that Google will do the right thing! > > * Renegotiation of the 32% Google-tax on applications sales > * Remedy to the Order of Entry Effect > * Public Bug Tracking > * Increased Payment Options > * Codified Rules and a Removal Appeal Process > * Communication and Engineering Liaison > * Algorithmic Transparency > > If you know any Android developers or are only any other software > lists, please pass this link around! A tweet or two would be nice as > well! :) > > Thanks very much!, > Rich > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss
