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by dpcan 15y ago
I think the difference is that with Apple, you get charged BY Apple, and a payment to Apple doesnt get declined, but on Google, each dev is a merchant that the banks aren't recognizin, and we get declined left and right.
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by dpcan 15y ago
When iOS became popular, developers spilled the beans left and right about how successful they were, causing a landslide of competition and a massive goldrush. I think Android devs with success realized this and have decided it's better fo
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by dpcan 15y ago
If they don't buy through the market, delivering updates becomes a problem.
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by dpcan 15y ago
What are you answering? I think his post goes to show that this statement isn't really true. Android users are willing to pay for quality apps, and the lack there-of has made your statement somewhat more true in the beginning of Android, b
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by dpcan 15y ago
The orders show up as "Payment Declined" in the order inbox, or "Cancelled by Google". If a customer just refunds, then the order just says "Cancelled" and the details of the order say that the card was successfully authorized. It's those p
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by dpcan 15y ago
Android users are paying, I can attest to that as well. Mind sharing about how high you rank on iOS? Also, I just went to download BridgeBasher. Your game wants crazy permissions. Why should a game have to update my SD card contents, need
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by dpcan 15y ago
I have just ONE thing to say: Do not change anything Reddit. Seriously, it's working, it's great to have, and I would be completely bummed if they pulled their own "Digg v4" at broke a perfectly working system. Sure, infrastructure can get
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by dpcan 15y ago
I agree, the bloodbath of "Payment Declined" orders in our order inbox is downright infuriating. This is especially painful when customers email us saying that they purchase apps all the time on Android and their card didn't work only when
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by dpcan 15y ago
Holy crap, what is your secret? I average 15K impressions a day on one of our games, and get maybe 30 clicks, and make around a buck. You get ~2K impressions and close to 115 clicks and make ~$5-$10 If I could get your numbers I'd be making
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by dpcan 15y ago
This is how bullying works. If the victim is small and accessible, with their reputation on the line, you can put them in their place. When DropBox broke, the community pounced. Apple can't be bullied. With DropBox I can just cancel my memb
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by dpcan 15y ago
Are you referring to being a salary worker? I think that's what he LEFT to start making money on his own. Not having a boss is worth 5x his salary IMO :)
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by dpcan 15y ago
I went to the homepage, and I cannot figure out what this company does. At all. I went to the Learn More page. Still don't know. Checked Case Studies, erm? So, I "think" that they may already have data, and allow people to analyze it?
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by dpcan 15y ago
The problem with this argument is that many of us are making significant money in the Market, and we feel pretty strongly that for that 30% cut Google gets of our sales, we should be getting way better support. Hell, GREAT support. Then t
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by dpcan 15y ago
That's just the thing. Have you ever talked to ANYONE who's received a response back from those Google support contact forms that wasn't just a canned response with no indication that anyone has read anything? Who are they trying to fool wi
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by dpcan 15y ago
That forum was the only way I found out I wasn't getting paid in full as well..... I have so many orders, checking them 1 by 1 wouldn't be possible. Developers need another location to communicate, and fast, because if this payout thing ha
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by dpcan 15y ago
Which is also F3.
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by dpcan 15y ago
I didn't see anything in that forum post from Google about improving or adding anything. I just saw a link to the already awful contact form and a message basically telling me to stay out. I went to this forum every day to gauge whether I
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by dpcan 15y ago
There was nothing in the forum post from Google about "improving" anything. They directed us to contact forms that always existed. Just TRY using those contact forms. I haven't tried today, but when I used them in the past, the first thin
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by dpcan 15y ago
Maybe that's because sometimes it's F3, or /, or Ctrl-F, or Edit -> Find. I think most people know Edit->Find Do 90% of people not know what a keyboard shortcut is? Yeah, I believe that.
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by dpcan 15y ago
Someone did. Listen to the "When Patents Attack" podcast: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/441/w... Someone created a system where they can enter a claim and go back and see how many times that claim was already gran
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by dpcan 15y ago
This is interesting, and kind-of good to hear as this is my first full summer of selling apps on Android after seeing a lot of success last fall. Last summer I just didn't have my apps polished enough, so I couldn't gauge if I was doing wel
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by dpcan 15y ago
YES! I have never been happier with my switch to Chrome. I'm actually quite frustrated with myself for having put my friends and family on Firefox as it's constantly needing updates, getting new versions, changing its look, etc. It's more f
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by dpcan 15y ago
Could be fun, but needs titles of the products with the pictures or half the time you don't even know what you're looking at and touching "hint" goes to the website.
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by dpcan 15y ago
I sort-of felt like this comment was added in his post to get the blood boiling a little. I love his other points about PHP (as I too like PHP), but I felt this was one of those bold statements that was a little sensational and attention gr
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by dpcan 15y ago
You can't blame PHP because the developers using it write messy code. I'll have the same problem in Java. I'll need to find out where I implemented some logic, and have to start digging through classes and following my own breadcrumbs unti
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by dpcan 15y ago
This sound good, but to be honest, I'd never remember to click on it.
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by dpcan 15y ago
But enough people do. Time to get on the bandwagon.
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by dpcan 15y ago
You would be surprised at the elegance a smartphone adds to the things you already do. Think of fast forwarding a voice mail, or sending an email, or scrolling back through text messages, or typing in the name of your bank in an unknown ci
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by dpcan 15y ago
How can providing the most basic level of support be under a gag order? Especially when their support pages recommend using the forums?
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by dpcan 15y ago
I get my payouts from Google. The reason there is so much frustration among Android developers is merely due to the lack of communication from the Google Android Team about anything. We feel like we are on our own, in the dark, and not impo

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