Friday, February 10, 2012

[android-developers] Re: Almost nobody is rating my app.

I know it wouldnt show up in the market place but you could put
something in your app that allowed the users to message you directly
like a form that takes a few strings and sends them to your database
or email or something. Then you could at least get feed back and at
that point you could offer in app content without breaking market
rules.

On Feb 9, 9:55 pm, Nikolay Elenkov <nikolay.elen...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 2:02 PM, Zsolt Vasvari <zvasv...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > And apparently there is a whole new crop of
> >> so called 'malware' (mostly filled with ads, etc.) that require you to
> >> give them a 5-star rating to continue playing/watching, etc. Most people
> >>  apparently fall for it, and those apps get a high ranking. Eventually
> >> most are removed, but I would be wary of any app that requires you
> >> to rate it.
>
> > Can you ellaborate on this?  I suspect one of my competitors is doing
> > us.  After 800 ratings in 2 YEARS, they got 800 5-star ratings in 2
> > WEEKS.  So something is going on there, but I don't know what, or how
> > to catch them.
>
> Can't find the link right now, but the fake Instagram app made the news:
>
> http://www.androidzoom.com/android_applications/photography/instagram...
>
> It got a whole lot of rankings in no time, apparently most users just though
> 'if it has that much ratings, it must be safe', and installed it. Of
> course, the
> 'malware' hype was vastly exaggerated, apparently it was just using
> rather aggressive ads.
>
> Have you tried using the app in question? If you use it for a while it
> might prompt you to rate it (which is not a bad thing, IMHO, as long
> it doesn't *require* it).

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