Google's Android Market is crippling small development teams
I've been a long time lurker on Hacker News. I apologize for the somewhat sensationalist title, but it really is rather true. Out of Milk started off as a dedicated Android project as our attempt to create an application for Android phones that absolutely screamed quality. We looked at the apps currently available on Google's Market and realized that there is a lack of quality applications with dedicated developers. We have spent a lot of money and a lot of time trying to prove that Android is a robust and high-quality platform. Unfortunately, Google is making this extremely difficult. I am a developer / co-founder of one the most popular Shopping List and Productivity applications on the Android Market. Our application is called Out of Milk (https://Market.android.com/details?id=com.capigami.outofmilk). As of right now, we are currently nearing 1 million downloads, a gigantic install ba
Why it failed
I've been a long time lurker on Hacker News. I apologize for the somewhat sensationalist title, but it really is rather true. Out of Milk started off as a dedicated Android project as our attempt to create an application for Android phones that absolutely screamed quality. We loo
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- CCapigami
- Ended
- 2011
- Source
- hackernews