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	<title>Comments on: Market and Checkout are hurting us say developers</title>
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		<title>By: Vanilla Cokehead</title>
		<link>http://androidbloke.co.uk/2009/12/01/market-and-checkout-are-hurting-us-say-developers/comment-page-1/#comment-250</link>
		<dc:creator>Vanilla Cokehead</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:35:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>As an end user, two things frustrate me about the Android Market:

1)  As with the developers, I am sick of dealing with Google Checkout.  Other payment options (i.e. carrier billing, PayPal, linking Google Checkout to a confirmed checking or savings account) need to be available.  When I want to buy an app on the Market, I run a 50-50 chance that my debit card provider will decline the purchase - which hoses me half the time I want to buy an app.

2)  There needs to be a way for end users to cut the S/N ratio in the Android Market app - it would be nice for individual end users to be able to block from search results specific authors whose apps are consistently useless; maybe this can be used as feedback for the authors and those who run the Market.

I certainly don&#039;t want an almost draconian system of app approval to be in place for Android - on a daily basis I hear horror stories of how Apple makes developers for iPhone jump through multiple hoops for approval of apps - and hear almost on a daily basis of seemingly arbitrary decisions on potential apps getting nixed there.  But there needs to be a better way for those who use the Android Market to winnow away the noise and get to apps that are useful and add value to their devices.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As an end user, two things frustrate me about the Android Market:</p>
<p>1)  As with the developers, I am sick of dealing with Google Checkout.  Other payment options (i.e. carrier billing, PayPal, linking Google Checkout to a confirmed checking or savings account) need to be available.  When I want to buy an app on the Market, I run a 50-50 chance that my debit card provider will decline the purchase &#8211; which hoses me half the time I want to buy an app.</p>
<p>2)  There needs to be a way for end users to cut the S/N ratio in the Android Market app &#8211; it would be nice for individual end users to be able to block from search results specific authors whose apps are consistently useless; maybe this can be used as feedback for the authors and those who run the Market.</p>
<p>I certainly don&#8217;t want an almost draconian system of app approval to be in place for Android &#8211; on a daily basis I hear horror stories of how Apple makes developers for iPhone jump through multiple hoops for approval of apps &#8211; and hear almost on a daily basis of seemingly arbitrary decisions on potential apps getting nixed there.  But there needs to be a better way for those who use the Android Market to winnow away the noise and get to apps that are useful and add value to their devices.</p>
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		<title>By: MobisleBlog &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Why the Market Needs to Be More Like the AppStore</title>
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		<dc:creator>MobisleBlog &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Why the Market Needs to Be More Like the AppStore</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:22:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] read two good summaries of the Skyhook Developer Report surveying 30 Android developers on their experiences [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] read two good summaries of the Skyhook Developer Report surveying 30 Android developers on their experiences [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Amos</title>
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		<dc:creator>Amos</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:07:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I totally agree with your arguement.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I totally agree with your arguement.</p>
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