it's the right term) that bind you (us) all.
All this kind of suggestion feels very genuine, and it's nice.
On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 12:07 AM, TreKing <trekingapp@gmail.com> wrote:
> At the risk of getting into another long-winded, miscommunicated debate ...
> =P
> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 4:03 PM, Brad Gies <rbgies@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> How many developers have experienced the other person's "eyes glazing over
>> and their mind shutting down" effect when they are excitedly telling their
>> friends and family about everything the latest technology/gadget/device can
>> do.
>
> Actually, when I show friends and family my shiny phone and start emailing /
> getting driving directions / looking up bus times, etc, etc, they open their
> eyes with excitement and interest.
> There's a reason that promotional videos or commercials show you what you
> can do with the product - like the iPad commercial with the person email,
> browsing, editing pictures, and playing games. These are all features of the
> product. No, dully listing every single feature as a list of text is not the
> best strategy, agreed - but there is unquestionable value in conveying to
> the user what they can actually do with what you're asking them to pay for.
> Unfortunately, we're all extremely limited in how we can do that on the
> Market.
> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 4:30 PM, Zsolt Vasvari <zvasvari@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Yeah, I don't know if I'd be willing to claim this entire theory is
>> > validated based on 8 more sales in one week for one app ...
>>
>> 8 a day, for a week.
>
> OK, that's a different story.
>
>>
>> But it the perecntage that matters.
>
> Not really. 1 -> 2 and 1,000 -> 2,000 is the same percentage, but a wholly
> different ball game.
>
>>
>> And today it's up to 19 so far. (21 - 2 cancelations)
>
> Nice, congrats.
>>
>> Fixed the errors -- that's what happens when you try to edit your
>> description in that tiny window on the Market app page.
>
> Use Chrome and resize that stupid window as big as you want =)
> It's bad enough we have the character limit - I can't believe they limit the
> window size too!
>
>>
>> Yeah, the free version says the same thing, minus the 24hr thing.
>
> No, I meant did you update the app itself, like so users got an update
> message to download it?
>
>>
>> How does somebody get featured?
>
> I think only Google insiders and Jesus know the real answer to that, but I
> have some theories.
> 1 - Be Google and promote your own apps
> 2 - Be a major company that does not need to be featured (and pay for the
> privilege?)
> 3 - Win the lottery.
> 4 - Be picked randomly via this method.
>
>>
>> > How did you determine this? Just curious.
>>
>> Just by looking at the names in Google Checkout.
>
> Ah, makes sense.
> Thanks for sharing.
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