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Re:What got you here on Apple, won’t get you there on Android by MatthewPhillips on Friday April 15, 2011 @01:49PM (#2451359)
Is it possible that your habits are partially trained by the device's strengths? It's easy to install from the app store so that's what you do. Don't you think that if you could install apps from the web you might do so after getting used to the feature?

It's a new feature for Android, so this article is really just hitting on how to market to users. It's saying play to Android's strengths, don't try to market the same way you market on iOS (which involves getting on the featured app list). The Market is much more algorithm driven in it's rankings so that approach doesn't work. But if you can spread your app in a viral manner on twitter and facebook with a link straight to purchase/download, how can you say that's not good advice?

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Re:What got you here on Apple, won’t get you there on Android by gte910h on Friday April 15, 2011 @02:13PM (#2451492)
>It's a new feature for Android,

Oh, so by android he means, 5% of android owners. Sorry, that's not a great thing to base a strategy around and it would be nice to clarify the different methods iOS has and the fact that this is only in Android W.Y.Z and only 3 phones have that delivery mechanism yet.

(Don't think I am not POed that apple is again on multiple versions. Why are they lagging the Verizon iOS version).

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Re:What got you here on Apple, won’t get you there on Android by MatthewPhillips on Friday April 15, 2011 @02:35PM (#2451596)
I see that you're taking this as an Android vs. iOS conversation and not a "how to effectively market to different audiences" conversation. I'll step out.
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Re:What got you here on Apple, won’t get you there on Android by gte910h on Saturday April 16, 2011 @01:49AM (#2453312)
I contend it is either A> Not a new feature or B> Not well distributed.

Show me a publication date of the feature and installed base and we'll talk.

It's either not new (which would make it a valid strategy item) or it's not widely available/adopted (which makes it useless). This isn't a niggling unimportant point. iOS had the same issue when they basically left 3G and older phones behind as android does with certain features.

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Re:What got you here on Apple, won’t get you there on Android by vetinari on Friday April 15, 2011 @02:21PM (#2451535)
New as "since 2.2", which means something over 2/3 of android users can use this feature.
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Re:What got you here on Apple, won’t get you there on Android by MatthewPhillips on Friday April 15, 2011 @02:36PM (#2451599)
Actually I meant new as in since January. But yes, it works on most Android phones. I meant new as in people aren't used to using it yet. It's something I'm sure a lot of Android owners aren't aware they can do. Which might be an advantage for those developers who do use it in marketing.
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Re:What got you here on Apple, won’t get you there on Android by gte910h on Saturday April 16, 2011 @02:29AM (#2453391)
I'm seeing 61%: Android various versions of OS 2.2 market share exceeded 61% of statistics from http://androidmet.com/03/android-various-versions-of-os-2-2-...
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