[SailfishDevel] Jolla Harbour and Jolla Store

[Andrey Kozhevnikov]

And please tell about possible ways for paying for application and 
developer ways to receive funds.

On 07.11.2013 03:29, Michal Jerz wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> It's a great news about the store, and a great name, too.  I have 9
> applications ported to Sailfish OS from Harmattan/Symbian, but they're
> commercial, so I hope that submission of paid apps will soon be allowed as
> well...
>
>
> Anyway, I also have a few remarks regarding the current specification of the
> store (in a good purpose, so that the store is as good as possible, both for
> publishers and customers). I know that it's just the beginning, but I also
> know that if something isn't done at start then either it never comes or it
> takes ages to add it...
>
> 1) *PLEASE* allow more screenshots than just THREE. It has always been a
> major problem with the Nokia store that only 3 screenshots could be posted.
> It is way too little to properly present even just part of functionality of
> more complex applications. I am not saying that it should be up to 64
> screenshots like in the BlackBerry store but *FIVE* is IMO a minimum.
>
> 2) I could not find what's the character limit of the application's
> description, but I hope that it's bigger than Nokia Store's 400 characters,
> for the same reasons as above. It is nearly impossible to properly describe
> a complex application's functionality within 400 characters. Using
> abbreviations like "&" instead of every "and", skipping spaces after commas,
> etc. only to manage to fit a few more words is a common practice at the
> Nokia store due to their tiny limit, and it still doesn't help much. Just to
> compare, the BlackBerry store allows 4000 characters.
>
> 3) PLEASE, allow publishers to post replies to customers' reviews in the
> store, like e.g. in Google Play.  No such possibility in the Nokia store,
> along with no access to any reviewer's contact data, prevents ANY
> communication between publishers and their users/customers. It often happens
> that in the Nokia store a customer complains about a trivial problem (often
> at the user's end) that could be very easily resolved if a reply could be
> posted, but lack of such possibility causes that the reviewer stays with his
> problem and his negative comment also remains and scares away others.  In
> the worst case, please at least allow publishers to accept/deny reviews,
> like in the Blackberry store...
>
> 4) Please, distinguish native applications from Android applications in the
> store, even just with some kind of icon. RIM does so with "Built for
> Blackberry" apps - a small BB icon is shown on lists and in the description.
>   Native Sailfish OS applications should be distinguished and promoted
> somehow - this will surely stimulate native development...
>
> Well, that's all for now...
>
> Or maybe one more question: is there any news regarding availability of
> developer units? All my applications use sensors, the GPS receiver, one also
> uses the camera.... none of which can be tested in the emulator. I'd like to
> make sure everything works fine prior to publishing the applications
> (especially that they're commercial, so it is important to make sure that
> what people will be paying for really works perfectly).  Maybe you could
> offer some kind of PRE-PRE-sales to developers who have several projects
> ready for publication? I'll happily pay for a developer unit if I can only
> get access to it as early as possible so that I can have all my applications
> ready before the phone starts shipping...
>
> Many thanks and kindest regards,
> Michal
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