On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Kevin Duffey <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yah, I don't know if it's possible to do a mass email to all your > downloaders.. that would be nice, but I would guess that google/market > protect end users from that potential for various reasons. > Yeah, didn't seem likely. You can send users an email via a proxy in Google Checkout, but you'd have the tedious process of sending them individually. > Maybe they don't, but it wouldn't be difficult to put together a table that > can store app history info... thus use it for the market to determine if a > user already downloaded the app for free and from then on gets free updates. > I think the problem is the paid app goes through "the payment processor" while free apps don't, so there's no way of tracking that an app that was downloaded for free should pass the validation when updating (assuming it was made paid again). Also remember that the Market + Google Checkout combination barely works as it is - I can't imaging giving it more responsibility to track this stuff. The Market has known problems where it won't download apps or gets stuck "Authorizing Purchase" indefinitely. Can you imagine it trying to figure out if a free app should be allowed a paid update? I certainly agree that this should be technically possible, but even if they ever did add this capability (don't hold your breath), I don't think adding yet another point of failure for the Market would be worth it in the long run. All we really need is the Market developers to read a "Designing UI for Dummies" book and have them implement a warning on switching that little paid-to-free option that makes the one-way process clear. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TreKing <http://sites.google.com/site/rezmobileapps/treking> - Chicago transit tracking app for Android-powered devices -- 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
