[android-developers] Re: Market and Developer Frustration

2009-03-26 Thread mv10
9) The web interface for market is miserable. Why can't we see all the apps there? Why don't we have the same set of controls we do from the phone along with a discussion/blog for ratings. For whatever it's worth, I came here specifically looking for a discussion of this issue. In addition

[android-developers] Re: Market and Developer Frustration

2009-03-26 Thread mv10
Interesting, it seems T-Mobile agrees... http://www.pcworld.com/article/161410/android_market_needs_more_filters_tmobile_says.html --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to

[android-developers] Re: Market and Developer Frustration

2009-03-11 Thread markz
Hi, That's great. Don't know how I misunderstood... but thanks for the clarification. Mark On Mar 10, 7:50 pm, Justin (Google Employee) j...@google.com wrote: c) As I understand it there's no way to update an app without charging for it again. That's ok for a game but not so cool for

[android-developers] Re: Market and Developer Frustration

2009-03-10 Thread Stoyan Damov
Moved this discussion to android-discuss (we agreed to move Market-related rants there). Join the group, it's worth it. On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 3:26 PM, markz markz...@gmail.com wrote: I've developed for a bunch of platforms and I'm starting to get a bit frustrated with Android/Google. It

[android-developers] Re: Market and Developer Frustration

2009-03-10 Thread Justin (Google Employee)
I'll respond to most of your points in turn, but in general you should keep in mind that Android isn't done. There are still lots of thing we plan to do, would like to do, and are thinking about doing. Thanks for taking the time to provide this feedback. 1) There's no way to dialog on ratings.

[android-developers] Re: Market and Developer Frustration

2009-03-10 Thread Sundog
On dumb shills: When everyone else is giving your app 5 stars, and one idiot gives it one star and leaves a comments proving she never even ran the program, that's one clue. Outliers should automatically be treated as spam. Thanks for your answers. Nice to hear any feedback from anyone.

[android-developers] Re: Market and Developer Frustration

2009-03-10 Thread Justin (Google Employee)
5) We still don't have .33 for our phones. I can't mark something as Spam yet nor even see what's for sale on Market. This should have been ready when it rolled to users. Or at least tell us WHEN it will be ready. This 'coming soon' stuff doesn't do much fo rme. How about now:

[android-developers] Re: Market and Developer Frustration

2009-03-10 Thread markz
Woot, an update! As just a few comments. a) I just submitted a reply/comment somewhere. It'd be nice if the group search didn't take me to the forward message. b) I think it's pretty clear to the developers when we get shills. At 2-4$ an app who minds buying their competitor and trashing it

[android-developers] Re: Market and Developer Frustration

2009-03-10 Thread Justin (Google Employee)
c) As I understand it there's no way to update an app without charging for it again. That's ok for a game but not so cool for something more complex. Then you misunderstand. This is absolutely supported, in fact this is the default modality. Let me explain a Market concept that doesn't seem