108 of what? I read the link..didn't see anything about 108? I don't know that google isn't too keen on monetizing android..they bought admob after all and a lot of apps on android use that to make money, so they get a bit from there. I think they are nuts NOT to provide an android SDK for billing customers for in-app purchases, be it music, themes, or game characters or new maps... take 25% of that and google could probably retire most of their staff in a few years time from the money they'll make.
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 5:49 PM, Matt Kanninen <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mar 17, 8:54 pm, Kevin Duffey <[email protected]> wrote: > > I still do not > > understand for the life of me why google (and even iPhone) did NOT make > this > > charge directly to the carrier bill. > > > Carrier billing is very hard to do. I don't think Google is rushing > to monetize Android. Honestly I don't think anyone should rush to > monetize Android. There will be plenty of money for us all to share. > At my local Mall I visited a Sprint store, a T-Mobile store, a Verizon > kiosk, and an ATT kiosk. They were were all willing to sell me > Android phones. > > The ATT Kiosk guy had no idea what Android was, and he couldn't demo > his phone, but he could sell it. > > The T-Mobile Store guy said he's selling mostly smart phones, and > those are mostly Android. They don't sell HotSpot @Home phones > anymore, I miss those dearly. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_Access_Network or > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unlicensed_Mobile_Access > > The Sprint Store guy said he was selling plenty of the Samsung Android > device. > > The Verizon Kiosk girl said she was selling Droids, and that she did > not yet have Devour's in stock, but the bigger store. > > Have yall read this? > > http://metrics.admob.com/ > > were you one of the 108? I think I was. > > -My 2 cents, > MK > > > PS Enjoy the lack of carrier billing while everything is free. Enjoy > free tethering, for example. As soon as there is carrier billing, on > android, with monthly subscriptions, I expect them to charge for > tethering. I'm not sure what that means for people like me that have > paid for the improved version of PDA Net. (I wanted my https.) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<android-developers%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+ > unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE > ME" as the subject. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.
