It seems slightly odd that Amazon can't have their Market App run a bunch of tests on install that generate the appropriate set of device capabilities. The major ones (Android version, OpenGL level, screen size, presence of GPS etc etc) are just a single API call each. Hard to believe that Amazon is unaware that this is a huge end-user experience fail for their customer base.
(Reading between the lines of the original blog post, possibly they just failed to enforce device restrictions for the free "App of the day" promotion.)
Yes, one would suppose that the Amazon market client would report device capabilities and the market would adjust response to that. Let's hope that they will learn.
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It seems slightly odd that Amazon can't have their Market App run a bunch of tests on install that generate the appropriate set of device capabilities. The major ones (Android version, OpenGL level, screen size, presence of GPS etc etc) are just a single API call each. Hard to believe that Amazon is unaware that this is a huge end-user experience fail for their customer base.
(Reading between the lines of the original blog post, possibly they just failed to enforce device restrictions for the free "App of the day" promotion.)
Yes, one would suppose that the Amazon market client would report device capabilities and the market would adjust response to that. Let's hope that they will learn.