I think you need to seriously reconsider your business model. If you're trying to earn revenue thru 1-time app sales, then I'm afraid you're in a losing game if you're content with building just 1 app. When it comes to to-do lists, no matter how great it is, the market is flooded with those, and a lot of them are cheap.
"Google is the guy driving this bus" <-- yes, it is, it's sorta like owning a website who's only source of visitors is SEO. It's just waiting and hoping Google doesn't mess up in anyway. When you're so reliant on 1 company for your revenue, something's wrong. You shouldn't put all your eggs in 1 basket.
Maybe it's time to branch out. Explore other money making opportunities.. Maybe, just maybe building a very very good app isn't enough to build a sustainable business. Yes, it makes you proud as a developer to build an app. But we're talking about building a business.
There won't be a lack of developers developing for Android, trust me... when the audience is so huge, it doesn't matter how much friction there is. Huge companies will pay ppl tons of money to deal with the BS. They're 10+ abstraction levels away from the bullshit. They'll just tell the developer team: DEAL with it, develop this in 1 month or you're all FIRED.
I don't know if your post is directed at me or not, but to you and all the other people in this thread assuming Out of Milk on the Google Android Market is the only source of advertising and revenue that we have and will explore...well all of you are making a giant assumption.
Everyone, please understand the following:
We understand that putting all of your eggs in one basket is dumb. There is no success there. But when the largest portion of your market all of a sudden starts screwing with you in ways you can't figure out, that is a problem and it is something worth discussing.
"Google is the guy driving this bus" <-- yes, it is, it's sorta like owning a website who's only source of visitors is SEO. It's just waiting and hoping Google doesn't mess up in anyway. When you're so reliant on 1 company for your revenue, something's wrong. You shouldn't put all your eggs in 1 basket.
Maybe it's time to branch out. Explore other money making opportunities.. Maybe, just maybe building a very very good app isn't enough to build a sustainable business. Yes, it makes you proud as a developer to build an app. But we're talking about building a business.
There won't be a lack of developers developing for Android, trust me... when the audience is so huge, it doesn't matter how much friction there is. Huge companies will pay ppl tons of money to deal with the BS. They're 10+ abstraction levels away from the bullshit. They'll just tell the developer team: DEAL with it, develop this in 1 month or you're all FIRED.