The War Against Spam Continues: Developer
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If you thought Google and a few “spam app” developers simply had a misunderstanding with the disappearance of their entire catalog of apps the other day, then guess again. One developer – So Wallpapers – had a representative contact AndroidGuys to inform them that their apps had been wiped clean from the market, too. Over 1,500 apps would see their demise, but it wasn’t just the ones Google might’ve considered “spam”.
“I can’t believe it. Our other good apps were also removed.” That’s quite unfortunate, but perhaps he has a point as to why he had to use spam apps to make up for the lack of revenue they were getting from other apps. “We didn’t want to have to [spam the market]. But the Android Market doesn’t have many people who like to pay for apps. So how is a developer to live? Just off of ad revenue?”
According to their source, the developer has more than one account which they can use to submit apps to the Android market with all of
nobody is ENTITLED to anything. this dbag can go fuck himself. but i’d prefer that Google give me the ability to have a “blacklist” of devs that will never show up in the market on my phone. if implemented right, there would be the ability to filter categories of apps that would have value beyond my just my own interests.
I personally don’t like the idea of having to buy an app outright, and then return it if I don’t like it. I wish Google would make it so that the actual financial transaction for an app purchase is delayed for a day or two, so that if I decide I don’t like it and uninstall it, it simply cancels the queued transaction, and I don’t have to worry about watching my credit card bill to make sure the refund took place. If they did that, I would be MUCH more likely to try out paid apps. That would be great for whoever takes a hit on the credit card transaction fees, and would be great for developers because they wouldn’t have to design their own version of a free trial app. With this system, every paid app would technically be a free trial app for one or two days, whatever the “return” period is that Google has established.
Lets turn this into a positive thread.. EVERYONE list the most useful apps you know so we can search them and find the GOOD apps on the Market Place.
Terrence mentioned some good apps Ive never seen before.
I have NO problem paying for useful apps… but there is WAY more garbage in the Market Place which makes it hard to spot the GOOD apps… “So Wallpapers” should quit crying and learn how to promote a good product
We can’t block him, he isn’t breaking any rules. We need a filtering system, as mentioned before, and some way so that an app gets yanked if it’s under a certain grade for a certain number of ratings, say under 3 stars across 1,000 ratings. That way, the community can speak up and kill off apps.
@logotic
You spend a lot of time looking for porn on your phone?! Wow…sad! ROTFL
Damn good riddance to So Wallpapers! I spend a lot of time trying to find decent porn in the android market and their crap apps turn up by the dozen in all my searches, and they’re all the same: Stupid Engrish descriptions like “All man like sexy” and “make mark to support us”, and all you get is six or eight pics of some Korean jailbait wearing a swimsuit so bulky it wouldn’t offend the Taliban.
Buh-bye, So Wallpapers, and say “Hi!” to the devil for me when you die!
Fuck this developer. His apps suck and that’s why nobody buys them. Fuck you, you leech ass developer, go make apps for the istore. You bitch.
paid apps for the rest of the world, hello? wake up google and help us help your dev’s
One thing Google could do to help developers get paid is to open up the Android Market for purchases in other countries and ALLOW people to pay for apps.
As it is, several countries can only access the free portion of the market, no wonder developers don’t get paid.
I do not understand how anyone believes spamming the market is going to improve their chances of making some money. If nobody wants your first crap app nobody is going to want the rest of the 999 others.
I love all three of the above comments!!!
Seriously though. Every morning or evening i’ll say “hey, lemme take a quick glance at the market and see if anything cool’s popped up” and then I have to wade through the literally dozens of apps some jerk developer vomited onto the market that are all the same dam crap over and over. (or they just make a bunch of different total crap games that don’t work and no one ever downloads) I’m talking to you, free4android, Puzzle, Playstation, Red Tomato, Felix.Brown, Aroma Planning, me4android, Brain&Puzzle, and all the other devs flooding the market!!!!!!!
@ Eric good idea .
I really would like to thank Google for removing these apps I hope they remove all the spam from the market .
How about we respond by launching a massive campaign to search out this developer’s spam-apps and flag them as such? Ask everyone to contribute a simple 5 flags per day.