Re: [android-developers] Re: Android Market Abusive developers...

2010-08-06 Thread TreKing
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Doug wrote: > If everyone reading this thread just took the time to mark spam apps as > "inappropriate" (then "Other objection" -> type "Spam") using the market, > might that cause anyone running the market to take notice? > Nope. There was an experiment that some

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android Market Abusive developers...

2010-08-06 Thread TreKing
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 5:10 PM, Albert wrote: > Surely Google could come up with a even better system, right? Google could do a lot of brain-dead simple, common sense things that would be fairly easy to implement and vastly improve the Market that for inexplicable reasons they never do or take

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android Market Abusive developers...

2010-08-06 Thread Jonas Petersson
On 08/06/2010 08:15 PM, samspade79 wrote: On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 12:07 PM, samspade79 wrote: Firstly, someone said a "real" developer cannot do more than a few apps. Please quote whomever said this, I'm not seeing it in the thread. You're right I must have been dreaming. I thought I saw someo

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android Market Abusive developers...

2010-08-06 Thread TreKing
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 12:07 PM, samspade79 wrote: > Firstly, someone said a "real" developer cannot do more than a few apps. > Please quote whomever said this, I'm not seeing it in the thread. The only reference I see to the word "real" is "Any real developer could afford $1 to update the app"

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android Market Abusive developers...

2010-08-06 Thread TreKing
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Maps.Huge.Info (Maps API Guru) < cor...@gmail.com> wrote: > It would also be a good idea to charge $1 to update as well. Any real > developer > could afford $1 to update the app, those who choose to update solely > to bring their app to the top of the "just in" lis

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android Market Abusive developers...

2010-08-06 Thread TreKing
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Alessandro Pellizzari wrote: > 25$ is a one time fee. I could then publish 10 apps. > I think the likelihood of a single developer publishing 10 useful apps is very small. > Reading this thread, I understood that one spammer already has 3 or > 4 accounts on the

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android Market Abusive developers...

2010-08-06 Thread Jonas Petersson
On 08/06/2010 04:51 PM, TreKing wrote: On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Alessandro Pellizzari mailto:a...@amiran.it>> wrote: If I want to write a useful free or open source app without ads, I am blocked by the cost. Um ... you're already "blocked" by the cost ... Follow along with me now:

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android Market Abusive developers...

2010-08-06 Thread TreKing
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Alessandro Pellizzari wrote: > If I want to write a useful free or open source app without ads, I > am blocked by the cost. > Um ... you're already "blocked" by the cost ... Follow along with me now: currently, you have to pay $25 to sign up as a developer, yes? So

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android Market Abusive developers...

2010-08-06 Thread TreKing
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 5:14 AM, { Devdroid } wrote: > On 6 August 2010 11:22, a1 wrote: > > This will not change anything, the biggest problem with spam is that, > > well, they spam all categories, so adding additional category is > > pointless. I think that there should be a publisher fee for ea

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android Market Abusive developers...

2010-08-06 Thread { Devdroid }
On 6 August 2010 11:22, a1 wrote: > This will not change anything, the biggest problem with spam is that, > well, they spam all categories, so adding additional category is > pointless. I think that there should be a publisher fee for each app, > this will stop spam for sure. That's silly idea an

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android Market Abusive developers...

2010-08-06 Thread Kostya Vasilyev
You should report this at b.android.com. -- Kostya 06.08.2010 2:06, samspade79 пишет: A problem I had the other day was an app that once downloaded subscribed you to SMS alerts @ $2.99 a month. I'm not sure how it could do this without some kind of user confirmation but it was very alarming. O

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android Market Abusive developers...

2010-08-06 Thread Kostya Vasilyev
You should report this at b.android.com. -- Kostya 06.08.2010 2:06, samspade79 пишет: A problem I had the other day was an app that once downloaded subscribed you to SMS alerts @ $2.99 a month. I'm not sure how it could do this without some kind of user confirmation but it was very alarming. O