Niko, I didn't sign any NDA with Amazon, but there is a lot of public information out there about the Amazon Android Store, coming from people leaking information out to various sites. Once the information becomes public, the NDA in regards to you talking about public information is not enforceable.
My guess is that they are (or will) try to enforce that developers always keep their application up-to-date with Android Market versions. To keep users, they would need such a provision, as who wants to buy an app from a store that doesn't get updates? >From my experience, most developers care about two things above all else: 1) downloads; 2) money from sales. If you look at all the other complaints, they are related to (1) and (2). Bad comments - hurts (1) or (2). My app doesn't show up, I can't sell it. Lots of spam apps means users can't find my app to buy. And so on. If Amazon can demonstrate that it can generate for the developer much more than the $99 dollar registration fee, then developers will flock to them, even putting up with unnecessary restrictions from Amazon. So the problem is: can Amazon demonstrate these sales? Introducing a high entrance fee means that 90%+ would never even consider them, as they either have free apps or their sales on Android Market are so low, they could never justify it. With a low number of apps in the store, users won't take it seriously. You end up with low downloads and sales so developers don't take it seriously. Shane On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 8:55 AM, niko20 <nikolatesl...@yahoo.com> wrote: > I don't think it's a breach of NDA terms to ask - has anyone here > decided to yes, take the offer to join the Amazon store? > > Personally I'm still unsure if I want to do so. The problem I have > isn't that they want to have more control over the apps, it's their > store, but that it seems like that control may extend beyond their > store. > > What's everyone else been thinking? > > -niko > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<android-developers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
