Right, I think he's suggesting however, that the issue is with 1.6. A random user who gets the app and has it crash immediately won't think "Oh, this likely has something to do with the recent update to my phone, I'll skip judging". They're more likely to think "Crashed, sucks, 1star". Which leads to a possible good number of 1star ratings due to something the developer could have no hope of knowing/fixing/understanding as 1.6sdk wasn't out prior to releasing for ADC.
Developers however, are far more likely to get a crashing app, and say "Oh, it might be due to 1.6, I'll skip", and skip. - Dan On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 5:27 AM, Beowolve <beowo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I don't believe so. A smaller number of qualified testers would yield > > a more reliable result than a huge number of people who do not know > > how to develop software. No one will concede to the developer that the > > app crashes because of Donut - in fact, he can't tell whether it's the > > app or the operating system - s/he will just give 1 star. > > > > But that's the way it works with Google - let the developers work for > > nothing and have the mob blame them. > > In my opinion this is plane wrong. An applications is mainly used by > none > developers and thats why the response from a simple user counts a lot > more. > It is also one of the main principles how you should develop an > application. > You need to develop for the user and not for you. It is very often not > easy > to know what the user actually wants most, thats for sure *g*. > You can for example create the most powerful command line tool for > file > management with cool batch features and automation just like you would > like > it as a old style programmer coming from a unix background. But the > user > will most likely prefer the simple windows explorer. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
