So in my last post I went on somewhat of a rant about paid applications disguised as FREE applications. I won’t continue the rant… but for those wondering EXACTLY what I was blathering about, take a look at the following video which perfectly illustrates my point.
Me no likey.
UPDATE: To their credit, Keith from Fast Food Calorie Counter left a comment that essentially apologizes for any confusion and chalked it up to poor descriptions, a newborn marketplace, etc… and we can appreciate that everyone is an Android Market virgin.
But, my overall concern still stands. This isn’t about ONE application… Fast Food Calorie Counter has simply become the scapegoat because it was the first “Demo” app listed as FREE and I felt like it symbolized the open door for all others to do the same… perhaps more abusively.
Keith also agreed that hey, listen, its a free market and hopefully Google will put measures in place that allow users to “vote down” the apps that are not worthy. But if that was the case, would “Fast Food Calorie Counter” be worthy?
I’ll let you be the judge…