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I think all of these corporations do have a responsibility to create reasonable conditions for developers - but I agree, these demands are quite unrealistic. A

• Mizza 16y ago
  Could you elaborate upon which demands are unrealistic? There are other marketplaces with better conditions - however, these do not come installed with any devices, rendering them fairly useless in terms of profitability.
  • lwhi 16y ago
    I think some of these demands might make operating a competitive market difficult for Google - particularly open-sourcing their market's code and implementation (Algorithmic Transparency). Perhaps Google should be encouraged to create a marketplace which provides a better user experience for customers? In terms of other marketplaces - I strongly believe that the creation of alternatives will lead to major gains for Android as a platform. If conditions are made more favourable for developers (e.g. lower commission) due to competition, and a choice of marketplaces are provided to customers (with better UX) .. all markets (including Apple's) will eventually need to come into line. I think it's good you're making your voice heard though.
    • Mizza 16y ago
      To clarify - the demand is not the market be open sourced (I too think that is unreasonable at this point) - simply that the bug tracking be done in public. I don't know if you're an Android user/dev, but the market is AWFUL, and I receive numerous emails PER DAY from customers who have been unable to download because of technical fault in the client or server. I agree with all of your other comments! A better UX for the customers is a better experience for us developers!