Comments on: WTFcake: Cupcake Hits Market – It’s an Absolute Joke.

By: HTC G2 “Dream” Leaked for Vodafone? | Android Phone Fans

HTC G2 “Dream” Leaked for Vodafone? | Android Phone Fans — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 17:44:06 +0000

[...] However, during HTC’s press conference earlier today, nary a blip was spilt on this little beauty. Could this hint at a late MWC debut of some kind? Maybe just an announcement a few weeks after? Who knows. Either way, assuming the hardware is legit (Good Photoshop job, if not!), I’m not seeing any functionality for a slide-out-of-the-bottom keyboard…that means one thing (and, therefore, a few things)…our favorite “we’re bored” topic – CUPCAKE! [...]

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:49:14 +0000

That cupcake app dropped over a week ago O_o

By: Phil

Phil — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 19:51:57 +0000

This is late.

However I was happy to see the app. People were driving me crazy talking about cupcake in the comments and I don’t believe half of them even know what it is. I actually had the idea of developing a chat forum to get the idiots off the market comments but this guy beat me to it and I’m glad he did.

The other annoying thing about the market is all the idiots that download every single app that comes out…even if its just a library like Mono (even though I hate Mono). Then they complain about it not working and post that it sucks. For some reason I just can’t read past that crap and it aggravates the hell out of me.

By: Col

Col — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 14:03:24 +0000

classic!

By: Gimme Cupcake Dawgz | Android Phone Fans

Gimme Cupcake Dawgz | Android Phone Fans — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 12:29:04 +0000

[...] in tribute to David’s explanation of Android Market’s comment system (first comment of yesterday’s post) we wanted to assure him that, “yo all deez dawgz wants dem cupcakes as badz as u!” And [...]

By: Chad F

Chad F — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:20:17 +0000

Alittle late with this arn’t we? It been up for a week or so.

By: David

David — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 23:06:12 +0000

On a serious note (not that I’m not seriously that irritated by the market) I have spoken to a couple people who very likely are in the know and google does plan to take action and fix this. I don’t know exactly how, but I suggested both my ideas to them. As we know it’s always a balance in an open source minded project between usability and adhering to the persona of an open market, but I think google realizes that if/when the majority of android users are not the geek crowd then this sort of dilemma will not be a good thing.

Here’s to wishing I had any clue what the schedule is =)

By: Matthew

Matthew — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:09:17 +0000

I think this is the way nearly every sensible/mature user of the market feels. I cannot for the life of me think why google have not sorted this out with moderation. Their “freedom of speach” stance is farcical.

By: Spencer Gardner

Spencer Gardner — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 21:50:45 +0000

David – I haven’t laughed that hard for a LONG time! You just summed up almost exactly how I feel about the market but hadn’t had the time to post. And the last line of that comment – absolutely hilarious. I’ll have to use that in a future Market post, and give you some credit :)

By: David

David — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 21:39:56 +0000

While amusing/annoying, i appreciate the sentiment of the app. The worst thing about this whole venture so far is not the market as a whole, but the comment system for apps. I can’t stand seeing the inflammatory remarks, cursing, useless ads for people’s web sites and whatever the line “yo dawgz diz is dah hizzy in ur boom wid yo bam bam” means. Market needs a language filter (even if it just replaces with ****) and/or a slashdot style karma system where we can vote down useless comments.

oh, btw, 1st. b***es.