aTrackDog flawed and deceiving

[ariesboy]

The REAL purpose of the aTrackDog is to gain market intelligence - i.e. how many users are running which applications. This data is VERY valuable, are they paying you for this data? My advice? Uninstall the application as it isn’t useful and will likely cause confusion. Otherwise, suggest they FIX the beta-bug in their process.

Big in Japan hit the nail on the head here. Using this app, you are giving them information into exactly what you use FOR FREE. People who enjoy their privacy should consider how much info they're willing to give up. Exact market info like this is worth $1000s if not $1Ms.

On a side note, this app compares what you have to what everyone else has so it will not have the latest in its database. Another user with aTrackDog must download the latest version before you can see it. And of course the known issues with private, internal, alpha, versions...

[f4phantomii]

Originally Posted by ariesboy

Big in Japan hit the nail on the head here. Using this app, you are giving them information into exactly what you use FOR FREE. People who enjoy their privacy should consider how much info they're willing to give up. Exact market info like this is worth $1000s if not $1Ms.

So our option is to allow someone else to collect this data, or alternately they could probably purchase it from Google. Somehow I don't see the difference. Either way, it doesn't help us.

On a side note, this app compares what you have to what everyone else has so it will not have the latest in its database. Another user with aTrackDog must download the latest version before you can see it. And of course the known issues with private, internal, alpha, versions...

Yeah, probably not the slickest way to do it. But at the moment, with a lack of anything better out there, this one will do until something better *does* come along.