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Addons and Genie and Future
Hello Guys, I put all my addons at $0 - 0€ on Genie store. I can't change certain price for old arm app but all app are at $0 0€ now I'm also thinking on leaving the Genie program/Market whi...
I'm with you on the openness. NETGEAR does not have the infrastructure to handle these added layers. Just the 'price change', how long will it take for that to be reviewed (~six weeks)? The Genie website is suffering from slow/bad design. They tried to launch it like they are Apple, no where near that level of participation. A $100 developer sign-up fee... Hah!
I hope to see you stick around, with community add-ons that are cheap/free, driven primarily by donations of satisfied customers.
After many months of on-going Genie issues, they need to abandon it and start clean with something new. And by that, I mean,... Listen to the existing community developers to design a proper spec, don't make your own which is badly designed. Also the limited currency support is pretty bad, use a decent payment gateway, or make everything free. They also have not commented on the whole 'uninstall bug', among other issues, and if they have even been addressed yet.
It's bad enough they alienated the existing customers by denying OS6 on the existing platform, even though it works fine.
The whole '1 million dollar app' contest is also a joke. Their hand picked judges pick what suits them, not the community favor. The 'leaderboard' also only contains 'premium partners', no community add-ons. It is also only valid in USA, and at least one of the leaderboard apps is DEVELOPED in UK, but MARKETED in USA. So are they going to bring the marketing guys to Vegas? The two core community add-on developers are outside of USA by the way... How fair. Then if you do get picked for #1, you then again only have a 1:100 chance of getting a random number to win the annuity grand prize (based on NETGEAR being around in 40 years?).
I hope to see you stick around, with community add-ons that are cheap/free, driven primarily by donations of satisfied customers.
After many months of on-going Genie issues, they need to abandon it and start clean with something new. And by that, I mean,... Listen to the existing community developers to design a proper spec, don't make your own which is badly designed. Also the limited currency support is pretty bad, use a decent payment gateway, or make everything free. They also have not commented on the whole 'uninstall bug', among other issues, and if they have even been addressed yet.
It's bad enough they alienated the existing customers by denying OS6 on the existing platform, even though it works fine.
The whole '1 million dollar app' contest is also a joke. Their hand picked judges pick what suits them, not the community favor. The 'leaderboard' also only contains 'premium partners', no community add-ons. It is also only valid in USA, and at least one of the leaderboard apps is DEVELOPED in UK, but MARKETED in USA. So are they going to bring the marketing guys to Vegas? The two core community add-on developers are outside of USA by the way... How fair. Then if you do get picked for #1, you then again only have a 1:100 chance of getting a random number to win the annuity grand prize (based on NETGEAR being around in 40 years?).
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