A user with a Nexus S might read a rant from somebody who ran the app on an unsupported device, and think the app itself is too buggy to bother trying. What’s worse is that these comments get read by other users, who are essentially reading bad information. For users, it’s an annoyance - but it can be far worse for developers, because Android users tend to be quick with negative reviews decrying that apps that don’t work on their phones. The Amazon Appstore doesn’t really care what device you’re using. The Android Market has a feature built in that tells users right up front when an app is deemed by its developers to be incompatible with their device. Most people don’t know what an app permission is.
The average Android user isn’t the type who reads tech blogs and pays attention to app permissions. Finding a way to fix Amazon’s review system is one thing, but losing perspective is another. Instead, he feels that users should just be more “educated” about app permissions and security concerns. So, while it’s feasible for users going through normal channels at the Android Market to be “always up-to-date” with all their apps, people using the Amazon Appstore can often be weeks behind - not a good thing when updates deal with security, and certainly not acceptable when an app actually costs money.īut the developer’s proffered solution isn’t any better, which is to simply eliminate the process altogether. To further add to delays, updates to apps aren’t treated any differently. The fix was easy enough, but it took over two weeks for Amazon to tell the team that it was necessary to begin with. In the case of Apparatus, the problem was that the game used HTTP instead of secured HTTPS when connecting to the internet to use its “Community” function.
First and foremost in his list of problems was Amazon’s review process, which he compared to Apple’s because it’s painfully slow, and extremely nit-picky.
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