Google's Android Market is crippling small development teams

Re:Google's Android Market is crippling small development teams by angryasian on Friday July 15, 2011 @05:24PM (#2769176)

My only point is he is blaming google for everyone of his own failures. Rather than blaming google, do something productive about it. A lot of these issues have been known issues and if he did any sort of diligence would be fully aware of these by now. As I pointed out there are plenty of successes on the Google Market, and a lot of developers on doing very well on the Market itself.

I welcome his advice for other developers to wait, that means more opportunity for developers that do want to develop on the Android marketplace.

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Re:Google's Android Market is crippling small development teams by mmmarvin on Friday July 15, 2011 @05:46PM (#2769261)

Your point makes no sense. How is the fact that Google has horrible support his fault? How is the fact that Google isn't updating the stats his fault? How is the fact that Google changed the search algorithm his fault?

> "A lot of these issues have been known issues and if he did any sort of diligence would be fully aware of these by now"

Oh, so these are known issues now and not "his fault." Becoming "aware" of these issues doesn't make them magically go away. This issues are still on-going despite what Google's Known Issues page says. Whatever argument you are trying to make here you're doing a horrible job at it.

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Re:Google's Android Market is crippling small development teams by angryasian on Friday July 15, 2011 @06:16PM (#2769354)

no need to be argumentative, but again.. no one is telling you guys to develop for the Android Market, go do apps on the Apple market if all these things are so troublesome for your team. I imagine you can do search and see all these issues in the past, and rather ranting figure out how to work around it, theres actually been a lot of good suggestion in this thread, and I can see you continue to place the blame on Google. So what it is their fault.. they won't fix .. now do something about it. Believe me theres plenty of opportunity on the Android market for good apps.

Second, working on any platform changes occur all the time.. example: Twitter and Facebook developers get screwed all the time, Apple just changed their subscription policy, Google changed their regular search algorithm to take down content farms.. Yes companies change their policies constantly its up to the developers to adjust or quit.

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Re:Google's Android Market is crippling small development teams by bond on Friday July 15, 2011 @09:30PM (#2769828)

Google changed their regular search algorithm to take down content farms

How is changing the algorithm so low quality apps are always first on the results taking down content farms? Sorry but you don't know what you're talking about....

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Re:Google's Android Market is crippling small development teams by angryasian on Friday July 15, 2011 @10:04PM (#2769891)

the point is if you develop and depend on a particular platform you are at the mercy of the platform owner. You either make changes and figure out how to get around it, like how about less reliance on google's search and go out and do some other marketing.

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