[android-developers] Re: Adding Rate this application capability

2010-10-06 Thread Brill Pappin
check the Market policy as you don't want to get your app removed. Developers should not attempt to change the placement of any application in the Market by offering incentives to users to rate an application with higher or lower ratings; or by themselves rating an application multiple times.

Re: [android-developers] Re: Adding Rate this application capability

2010-10-06 Thread Stephen Jungels
Directing users to the details page so they can rate your app doesn't seem questionable as long as you do it in a neutral way and there is no implied reward for a positive rating. There's also no guarantee that it will increase the number of positive ratings more than it increases the number of

[android-developers] Re: Adding Rate this application capability

2010-10-06 Thread Yahel
Interesting find : My english is not that good so I'm not sure about the wording : Incentive means to offer something in return or simply to ask for a good rating ? I can see the point in the first one, I suppose the second one makes more sense. Thanks. Yahel. On 6 oct, 16:00, Brill Pappin

Re: [android-developers] Re: Adding Rate this application capability

2010-10-06 Thread TreKing
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Yahel kaye...@gmail.com wrote: Incentive means to offer something in return or simply to ask for a good rating ? –noun 1.something that incites or tends to incite to action or greater effort, as a reward offered for increased productivity. IOW it's motivation

[android-developers] Re: Adding Rate this application capability

2010-10-06 Thread Bret Foreman
You need to be aware of intangible incentives too, like the pride and recognition that comes from Open Source Software participation. This is a powerful incentive, as evidenced by the long (usually unpaid) hours that people devote to it. I could see how a particular app could create social

[android-developers] Re: Adding Rate this application capability

2010-10-06 Thread Yahel
You need to be aware of intangible incentives too Ok so the reward being tangible or intangible as to exists. That's the meaning of incentive I understand. Thank you. Just to be sure, and I know you are not lawyers or anything so in the end it will be my call but I just spent the day

Re: [android-developers] Re: Adding Rate this application capability

2010-10-06 Thread TreKing
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Yahel kaye...@gmail.com wrote: Would YOU consider it as an incentive or is it just a request that is compliant with the TOS ? Sounds like a polite request without incentive. I don't think there's anything wrong with asking for user feedback.

[android-developers] Re: Adding Rate this application capability

2010-10-06 Thread Yahel
Cool, I thought so but since my english is not perfect, I wanted to have a second opinion. It will be in the next release then :D Thank you very much. Yahel http://www.a-world-of-faces.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group.