Devang Mistry
Devang reads app listings the way other people read ingredient labels: past the brand on the front, down to the line that says what the thing actually is.
JaiHo 777
The listings beat
The comparison of the two store entries is his, along with the publisher line, both shelves and the 91 entry.
He found the thing this whole desk is built on, and it took about four minutes: the head search returns two Google Play results with the identical title Jaiho 777, and they are two different applications from two different publishing accounts. A third identifier carries the same title on a file catalogue and returns a not-found page when the store is asked about it.
JaiHo 777
What he will not do
He does not install what he writes about, and he is blunt about why. The desk's advice to readers is to be careful with unexamined packages. A writer who ignores that advice for material has not tested the advice — he has exempted himself from it, and the reader cannot.
The consequence shows up as a recurring sentence across his entries: this is what the listing says. It is a smaller claim than this is what the app does, and it is the one he can support.
JaiHo 777
His standing complaint
Icons. Every time somebody proposes comparing two apps by their artwork, he points out that an icon is the single easiest field on a listing to reproduce and the single hardest to compare precisely.
The identifier cannot be reproduced. It is assigned once, it is visible in the address bar of every store page, and no two applications can share one. It is also the field that download listings, in his experience of reading them, leave out most reliably.
Checked by Devang Mistry · Store listings, packages and files