Your point makes no sense. How is the fact that Google has horrible support his fault? How is the fact that Google isn't updating the stats his fault? How is the fact that Google changed the search algorithm his fault?
> "A lot of these issues have been known issues and if he did any sort of diligence would be fully aware of these by now"
Oh, so these are known issues now and not "his fault." Becoming "aware" of these issues doesn't make them magically go away. This issues are still on-going despite what Google's Known Issues page says. Whatever argument you are trying to make here you're doing a horrible job at it.
no need to be argumentative, but again.. no one is telling you guys to develop for the Android Market, go do apps on the Apple market if all these things are so troublesome for your team. I imagine you can do search and see all these issues in the past, and rather ranting figure out how to work around it, theres actually been a lot of good suggestion in this thread, and I can see you continue to place the blame on Google. So what it is their fault.. they won't fix .. now do something about it. Believe me theres plenty of opportunity on the Android market for good apps.
Second, working on any platform changes occur all the time.. example: Twitter and Facebook developers get screwed all the time, Apple just changed their subscription policy, Google changed their regular search algorithm to take down content farms.. Yes companies change their policies constantly its up to the developers to adjust or quit.
Google changed their regular search algorithm to take down content farms
How is changing the algorithm so low quality apps are always first on the results taking down content farms? Sorry but you don't know what you're talking about....
the point is if you develop and depend on a particular platform you are at the mercy of the platform owner. You either make changes and figure out how to get around it, like how about less reliance on google's search and go out and do some other marketing.
One thing I've noticed is that paid apps are ranking higher than free apps in searches. That's all great, but sometimes the paid apps are really the crappiest. They really need to find a balance between paid apps, quality and the free apps. It looks bad on the Android Market when someone searches for something and what they get are crappy/ugly apps (which there's quite a lot of on the Android Market).
You hit the nail in the head with Amazon Appstore app description issue. Our app has had (and still has) that problem. Our content has been written by Amazon, but we have no control over it. In the meantime, our app (and even our business model) has evolved but the description is still the old description. As a result we get emails from confused users.
> "A lot of these issues have been known issues and if he did any sort of diligence would be fully aware of these by now"
Oh, so these are known issues now and not "his fault." Becoming "aware" of these issues doesn't make them magically go away. This issues are still on-going despite what Google's Known Issues page says. Whatever argument you are trying to make here you're doing a horrible job at it.