With the many changes coming to the Android Market, we’ll start seeing a new feature that will allow the user to filter the applications in the market. Android devs are to rate their application with one of the following labels:
- Pre-teen
- Teen
- Mature
- All
If developers fail to rate their applications in the coming weeks, the rating will automatically be set to Mature. The Android Market has gotten a little out of hand and is definitely lacking is some areas and many users are finding that other services like AppBrain are more beneficial and organized.
We’re happy to see Google take control of the market situation allowing more structure for the Android market to grow. Do you agree with the rating system Google is to set in place?
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Automatically rating existing apps as “Mature” would be fine, except there is no way for developers to set the content rating on their existing app. I wont be able to upload a new binary for my app for a couple months, so it looks like I’m stuck for a while
Automatically rating existing apps as “Mature” would be fine, except there is no way for developers to set the content rating on their existing app. I wont be able to upload a new binary for my app for a couple months, so it looks like I’m stuck for a while
Be nice if devs could also label their apps as “spam” as well. The amount of worthless garbage (Michael Quach) apps is astounding.