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User Rating2.33/5The Android development team has been hard at work on the next version of Google’s Android Market which will include a UI face lift, roll out the “Related” Android apps tabs some are now receiving and shortening the refund window from 24 hours to 15 minutes (a decision developers will glee with joy). The roll out will be over the next few weeks and for Android 1.6 and higher devices.
Apart of the user interface revamp on the Market home and category screens is a carousel of featured top Android apps. More new categories will be supported such as Widgets and Live Wallpapers (apps with widgets and walls included will be automatically placed in these categories). Content ratings
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Google noted most folks refund within 15 minutes of purchase and have decided to shorten the window of refunds. I’m sure some consumers will uproar about this as sometimes you can download an app and not open it right away or factors in determining a refund is needed spawn past a 15 minute window. However many developers will be happy, especially those with play-and-throw-away value apps & games.
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Very disappointed in the 15 minute window thing. There are many apps that I have bought that I wouldn’t have if I didn’t have a full day to try it out. They should give devs an option to lengthen the refund window.
Seriously? What would be the point? If they have the option, they would not use it. It would only keep them from getting money.
24 hours was too long, but 15 minutes?! This doesn’t give you any time at all to check out deeper and more complex apps. People will shy away from buying more expensive apps, because they won’t be able to test them. Change it to 6 hours – that’s more than enough time to try out an app, but not enough to finish a game (or, at least, a good game).
15min?! are you kidding me? it takes longer to findout if the app even works half the time. I’ve bought Apps that after a few hours gets flaky. I hope that they don’t stick with this.
Who can properly evaluate an app in 15 minutes? I thought a day was too short. This will cause alot of apps not to be purchased.
And I thought 24 hours was too short, I’ll be buying less software and/or more activity will be outside of the market.
15 minutes!! I’ll be installing, rejecting and marking 1 star an awful lot methinks until the developers start pushing back and saying how daft that is. 15 minutes!! Pathetic. Who can possibly gain from that other than developers? I’ll be buying a lot less apps due to this as there’s no way we can properly evaluate an app in a paltry 15 minutes. I can always root and pirate software I suppose.
15 minutes is way too short, especially, for someone new to an Android or other smart phone. I just recently bought my first Android phone, and When I started downloading apps, it often took me more than 1 hour to locate and tryout an app. If I had been stuck after 15 minutes, I would have wasted a lot of $$ and probably would have returned the phone in disgust. And, I sometimes hear about or read about an app in the AM, download it so I won’t forget it, but don’t have time to try it out until the evening. 12 hours would enable me to do that and would seem to be a good compromise!
Greed and pressure won’t sell apps to me!
Cannot wait! Each and every update to the Market is an improvement.
When Reckless Racing was released, their servers were so overloaded with thousands of users downloading a large content payload, 1 week may not have been a long enough evaluation time! Consider that users were not allowed to “try” the game until that download was complete.
15 minutes is indeed a short window to evaluate software. The only way to make a 15 minute refund window fair would be to allow the user to actually start using/playing the app/game before starting that timer.
I know I felt tricked when my 24 hour refund window expired without playing Reckless Racing for even 1 minute!