On Oct 4, 1:46 pm, Shane Isbell <shane.isb...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Nathan <critter...@crittermap.com> wrote: > > > Registration may not be affordable for free apps, but I don't think > > Amazon really sees free apps as a priority. Can't see why they would. > > Free apps are a priority because that is what drives users to the store. If > users don't come, there are no sales of paid apps. If there are no sales, > developers don't upload, users don't come... In short, free apps are the > strongest way to bootstrap an app store user community. > > Shane >
They will get free apps without it being their priority. The $99 isn't per app, is it? A developer with paid and free apps will probably put both in there. And free apps that generate sufficient revenue through ads etc. will also make their way there. >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. This I don't buy. We developers overestimate our own importance. And lots of people overestimate the importance of the sheer number of apps. Are these 90% of apps (your estimate) that have never made any money (through sales or otherwise) critically important to Amazon? Would an Amazon customer not buy a device because it only has 10,000 apps instead of 100,000? Particularly if 20,000 of the latter are spam, and another 20,000 are not maintained because they never made any money? If Amazon made its next Kindle an Android device, lots of people would buy it because of one app only: Kindle. I think the real question is what devices can Amazon get its store preloaded on. Nathan -- 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
