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Can I just say I'm jealous as hell.

This was a fantastic reply.

To everyone that has made comments about how little it is:

There are serious ethical issues with large monetary incentives in terms of consent. When you're offering a lot of money, you are taking away a bit of choice from those in extreme poverty to not do the study. In fact, most of the monetary compensation given in studies are given as reimbursement, and do not count as a monetary incentive (money for taking work off, gas money, food money, child care money, etc). Of course, this can be taken into the extreme (any amount of money is exploitation and violates consent) and some do, but there is a balance to be drawn between social good and human rights. This is why IRB's (institutional review boards) exist and has to approve of every study in the U.S.

From what I can tell, the backlash you're experiencing is because you're going for a quantity over quality approach. Answer as many people as possible! I get that, but I think reading over the questions (overall) more carefully then giving meaningful and thoughtful answers to get to the heart of our concerns would be more effective. We don't need a rehash of last week's presentation, we're looking for insight.

Obviously, you've seen that it's better to just say 'we can't say anything' than to talk in circles. :)

Have you guys thought about putting out a 'best for X' app list? For some reason your app store search often comes up with poor results when searching for common things like Youtube or Pandora or Feedly, which all have great 3rd party apps (Hyper, Plug Radio, and Nextgen Reader, respectively).

I feel like a lot of the perception about the app store comes down to poor search results, because for most things you only need 1 app that does it well. So you could just fix that as well, but I know that's not your department. :P