I love to remind people: there ARE alternatives to Google's Android Market. My favorite two alternatives are http://slideme.org and http://www.getjar.com. Check out their terms and see if you like them. I particularly like that Getjar does promotion for you, even on carrier/premium channels.
I have to admit that I haven't checked out their payment systems closely, since I have only done free apps to date. But I did notice that SlideME handles the billing for you, and in far more countries than Google does, since they not are tied to one system, nor to the local carrier. Besides: the rates SlideME displays at http://www.slideme.org/rate-schedule look pretty good, especially if you decide to get a MasterCard from them and have payments go automatically into that;) Of course, the problem with all these options is that thanks to Steve Jobs, everyone just assumes that Google Android Market is the world, just like iTunes is for the iPhone. So none of these alternatives give your product the exposure that Google's Android Market does. On Sep 20, 5:33 pm, GJTorikian <[email protected]> wrote: > The title more or less says it all. > > Google Checkout, as you may be acutely aware, only supports ~9 > countries. Some apps use PayPal to receive payment, then send out an > "activation code" to the user. How can this be done to ensure that a > single user receives a single activation code? Once the app verifies > the code, how could the app more or less "verify itself" that it's > been paid for? Storing such data in a preference file or a database on > the Android device can surely be easily extracted and exploited. > > How are other developers handling app sales in other countries--or do > they just not care? -- 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
