Hi Brad, very kind of you, thank you! My apps: https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Jos%C3%A9+Gonz%C3%A1lez+D%27Amico
The main app, Month Calendar Widget, is free and recently crossed the 2M mark, the other app is the first extension and is the only paid app I have for now. The second extension is for managing calendar events and hopefully will sell better. Best regards, José El jueves, 27 de marzo de 2014 18:32:00 UTC-3, Brad OHearne escribió: > > Hey Jose, > > I feel your pain. I’ve been an app developer since the beginning of > smartphone app development, and have both experienced first-hand and > watched others experience the really unfair treatment by people in ratings > and reviews, and the unfortunate inability of the associated app market > ratings system to basically facilitate consistent accurate and legitimate > reviews. Alas, I am just another app developer, and cannot fix the problem > for you. But what I can do is the following: > > - Let you know that I’m sure you put a lot of hard work into your app > development, and would like to have that work and the product recognized > and treated accordingly. So just know there’s one person out there who > appreciates whatever late nights and weekends you put in to make it happen. > You SHIPPED PRODUCT. That’s more than most big companies do well. > > - I’ll check out your app and I’ll give you a fair rating, provided it > isn’t expensive. If it isn’t free, don’t send me any kind of freebie or > anything like that — I’m happy to buy and review it. Maybe if a few devs > out there help a brother out and perhaps Google straightens out whatever > nefarious star-forces are at work, it can straighten out your rating. Just > send me the link to the app, I’ll check it out. > > Keep your chin up, and happy coding. > > Cheers, > > Brad > > On Mar 27, 2014, at 12:29 PM, Jose_GD <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > > I've just sent feedback via the Developer's Console and captured this > screen. Cannot understand how suddenly a lot of people find my app is > terrible... I've lost 0.25 points of rating since this "little help" from > Google to get more people rating. Incredible. > > > <https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/--ibgnJV_p88/UzR7x5UqBII/AAAAAAAAAds/vtqXMZ9_kh4/s1600/Cumulative+avg+ratings+last+6m+-+March27.png> > > > El miércoles, 26 de marzo de 2014 15:28:16 UTC-3, Jose_GD escribió: >> >> Any news regarding this issue? >> >> I don't know if I didn't pay attention before or if it's a brand new >> feature of the Play app. Now you can rate an app immediately after tapping >> Install (or Buy), *before* the install completes! How can you have an >> opinion for an app you actually didn't use at all? >> >> No wonder my app 3 months ago had a 4.4 rate and now has a 4.16 rate. And >> the last update was 4 months ago... >> >> Thanks for any clues >> >> José >> >> https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Jos%C3%A9+Gonz%C3%A1lez+D%27Amico >> >> >> El miércoles, 22 de enero de 2014 19:43:29 UTC-3, Nobu Games escribió: >>> >>> I got feedback today from Google Play support acknowledging my >>> complaints about that quick-rating widget: >>> >>> Thank you for contacting the Google Play developer support team. I >>>> sincerely apologize for the inconvenience. >>>> >>>> We really appreciate your thoughtful feedback, and we'll be sure to >>>> take your thoughts into consideration as we work to improve Google Play. >>>> >>>> Thanks for your understanding and continued support! >>>> >>> >>> Fingers crossed that this issue will get sorted out soon :-) >>> >>> On Tuesday, January 21, 2014 1:33:59 PM UTC-6, Nobu Games wrote: >>>> >>>> I'm still far from being top or even mid-tier in terms of app downloads >>>> but this morning I also got my first 2-star mystery rating for a paid app >>>> of mine - no comment and no Google+ name I could respond to. That didn't >>>> happen to me so far since most users tried the free version first and then >>>> decided to buy afterward. >>>> >>>> This wouldn't have bothered me that much but nevertheless I wanted to >>>> see for myself how that "recommendation rating widget" looks like on my >>>> phone. So I opened the Google Play store app and scrolled down the lengthy >>>> front page with several swipe movements. And I suddenly saw that an image >>>> was flashing and quickly changing to "1 star". I accidentally rated some >>>> random app while swiping the screen. >>>> >>>> This bug 100% reproducible: >>>> >>>> 1. Touch one of the stars >>>> 2. Move your finger up or down outside the recommendation box >>>> 3. Lift finger >>>> 4. App gets rated >>>> >>>> This can happen quickly and accidentally while scrolling down the >>>> screen. Since I am right-handed (as the majority of people), my thumb >>>> naturally reaches to the left side of the screen, where the worse rating >>>> options are (1 and 2 stars). I bet this happens thousands of times every >>>> day without people even realizing what they just did. I sent a bug report >>>> to Google Play support about that issue. >>>> >>>> I also have to agree that the phrasing of the recommendation is >>>> completely misleading. If it weren't for this thread here I would have >>>> thought that I'd be rating recommendations and not apps. If I were asked >>>> to >>>> rate my favorite "scanner app" with the question "rate this item to get >>>> recommendations", I would give that recommendation a bad rating because I >>>> am already 100% happy with my scanner app and I'm absolutely not >>>> interested >>>> in more apps like that. I guess something along these lines may have >>>> happened with my paid app this morning. >>>> >>>> Google Play really has to fix that as quick as possible. This new >>>> recommendation widget is a substantial change in the overall rating system >>>> Google had no experience with before. Stuff like that should be >>>> extensively >>>> tested before put into production mode. Real users should have been >>>> observed while interacting with that new widget. Real users should have >>>> been asked how they interpret the meaning of that new feature. To make >>>> that >>>> feature more useful it should be either decoupled from recommendations and >>>> be absolutely straightforward: "Do you like this app? Rate it". If >>>> recommendations are more important than that then it should be a simple >>>> thumbs up / thumbs down and the result must not affect the rating of the >>>> recommended app. >>>> >>>> >>>> On Friday, December 27, 2013 4:37:06 AM UTC-6, Tolriq wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> My app rating is being hijacked by competitors and I don't know what >>>>> to do :( >>>>> I've tried to contact Google but there's no category for that and they >>>>> don't answer from the other category contact :( >>>>> >>>>> My app is 4.9 rating since a very very very long time and all very >>>>> very few bad rating always had comments. >>>>> Since 14 days I start to have lot's of 1 or 2 stars rating without any >>>>> comments and without having released a new version or the app having >>>>> problems. >>>>> There's still the same amount of 4 / 5 star rating coming every day. >>>>> >>>>> This graph for the 6 last months from Play Store console : >>>>> http://postimg.org/image/i2bpm94vt/ shows the problem clearly and >>>>> proves without a doubt the hijacking action :( >>>>> >>>>> What are the possible actions against that ? >>>>> This is a shame that years of work can be attacked so easily :( >>>>> >>>>> How to contact some Google representative to have this investigated ? >>>>> >>>>> Regards, >>>>> Tolriq >>>>> >>>> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected]<javascript:> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] <javascript:> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Android Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] <javascript:>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. 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