The sorry state of Android Market really worries me. I was hoping
really big from google. But alas, it seems to be a failure as of now.
And google is taking so long to improve upon things.
If people google wants Android market to be a success, then they need
to make radical changes in Android Market and with greater speed.
1. More payment options (e.g. paypal or user's phone-bill)
2. Allow for installation of games (game-data at least) on SD card.
3. Here in the USA: Some marketing of not just the G1, but the Android
Market.
And some other things, but the above 3 are on my top-list :)
On Apr 6, 12:05 pm, Eks <eknathka...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The sorry state of Android Market really worries me. I was hoping
> really big from google. But alas, it seems to be a failure as of now.
> And google is taking so long to improve upon things.
> If people google wants Android market to be a success, then they need
> to make radical changes in Android Market and with greater speed.
The A.M will come and indeed IMHO surpass Apple's AppStore soon, or as soon
as users start seeing interesting content and solid distribution. When A.M
will be up to everyones expectations, it will be at the same time developers
have created descent amounts of content as long as charges of apps are also
reasonable.
George
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 7:05 PM, Eks <eknathka...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The sorry state of Android Market really worries me. I was hoping
> really big from google. But alas, it seems to be a failure as of now.
> And google is taking so long to improve upon things.
> If people google wants Android market to be a success, then they need
> to make radical changes in Android Market and with greater speed.
The main problem with the market is that there is insufficient
enforcement over the CRAP that is posted. All the themes and other
nonsense should not be there.
On Apr 6, 12:17 pm, george_c <chrisg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The A.M will come and indeed IMHO surpass Apple's AppStore soon, or as soon
> as users start seeing interesting content and solid distribution. When A.M
> will be up to everyones expectations, it will be at the same time developers
> have created descent amounts of content as long as charges of apps are also
> reasonable.
> George
> On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 7:05 PM, Eks <eknathka...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > The sorry state of Android Market really worries me. I was hoping
> > really big from google. But alas, it seems to be a failure as of now.
> > And google is taking so long to improve upon things.
> > If people google wants Android market to be a success, then they need
> > to make radical changes in Android Market and with greater speed.
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 11:09 AM, lbcoder <lbco...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The main problem with the market is that there is insufficient
> enforcement over the CRAP that is posted. All the themes and other
> nonsense should not be there.
> On Apr 6, 12:17 pm, george_c <chrisg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > The A.M will come and indeed IMHO surpass Apple's AppStore soon, or as
> soon
> > as users start seeing interesting content and solid distribution. When
> A.M
> > will be up to everyones expectations, it will be at the same time
> developers
> > have created descent amounts of content as long as charges of apps are
> also
> > reasonable.
> > George
> > On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 7:05 PM, Eks <eknathka...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > The sorry state of Android Market really worries me. I was hoping
> > > really big from google. But alas, it seems to be a failure as of now.
> > > And google is taking so long to improve upon things.
> > > If people google wants Android market to be a success, then they need
> > > to make radical changes in Android Market and with greater speed.
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Sent: 06 April 2009 18:49
To: Android Discuss
Subject: [android-discuss] Re: When will Android Market will compete with
Apple's app store
There's a lot of non official markets that offer apps, too. I don't trust
them, would prefer everything to be on one official android market. But yes,
with this drawbacks (payment, only 2 countries for paid apps etc) it's not
gonna happen soon.
But by the en of the year, with the launch of more android phones it will
become a bigger issue. Hopefully Google will deal with it then.
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> [mailto:android-discuss@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of KonstantinDK
> Sent: 06 April 2009 18:49
> To: Android Discuss
> Subject: [android-discuss] Re: When will Android Market will compete with
> Apple's app store
> There's a lot of non official markets that offer apps, too. I don't trust
> them, would prefer everything to be on one official android market. But
> yes,
> with this drawbacks (payment, only 2 countries for paid apps etc) it's not
> gonna happen soon.
> But by the en of the year, with the launch of more android phones it will
> become a bigger issue. Hopefully Google will deal with it then.
> The sorry state of Android Market really worries me. I was hoping
> really big from google. But alas, it seems to be a failure as of now.
> And google is taking so long to improve upon things.
> If people google wants Android market to be a success, then they need
> to make radical changes in Android Market and with greater speed.
Big loss for publishers as carrier billing will take a big chunk away from their payouts. Some countries withhold even 50% just for carrier billing. No need nowdays as Premium billing had its days and its about time its going away. Penalty for them now for being greedy & holding on to a monopoly and profiting so much on publishers efforts whilst they only handled billing and distribution.
" Carriers are seeing their content revenue (ringtones, ringbacks) flatten out and seeing voice minutes saturate, so they are all over applications and advertising. That said, it’s probably too late. The industry is ripe for disruption. The landline businesses are dragging the diversified players down and their entrenched, proprietary strategy will be hard to sustain as the world moves more open and off-deck.
The commoditization of communications infrastructure is a movie we’ve seen over and over again and it may take 10-15 years, but we will see it again here. The communications companies are at risk at becoming the next Newspaper industry if they don’t adapt fast.
