In case you have the luxury to think concept - as far as I can tell, there's a "seismic shift" going on in what independent developers consider viable business approaches to the generation of revenue through apps. 'round where I live (San Francisco), you hear the high velocity, app market style app sales model declared dead, and you won't find many devs any more announcing apps that do not emphasize monetization through user engagement. This trend has a few drivers, $. 99 a pop apps mostly, but also, in Android, the absence of a viable and convenient solution in Android Market to buy and sell apps the old fashioned way. Based on that, perhaps think about giving away the app for three, which serves as a vehicle for in-app payment that points back to you (and only your), and that allows you to control authorization at the point of payment.
On Nov 19, 4:09 pm, Sheado <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > Sorry for starting yet another post on this subject. We're trying to > decide on whether to go with LVL or just un-protect our apps > altogether (currently using the copy protection feature). So my > question: > > * Are you copy protecting/DRM/LVL licensing your apps? > > Some of our concerns include: > * ROI on time spent with LVL code/testing/bugs versus actual increase > in sales > * lack of copy protection in other markets > > Some info we found in other posts: > * piracy breakdown of a popular app:http://keyeslabs.com/joomla/ > projects/auto-app-licensing/152-a-global-piracy-heat-map > * some have mentioned going free (ad-only) - some of our apps are > niche apps, therefore this strategy will not work well for some of > those apps. > > On a side note: we liked the deprecated copy-protection feature > because it involved no extra development work and seemed secure enough > to thwart a "casual pirate" from easily sharing an app with all of > their friends. (another side note: we have incurred the wrath of tons > android1.5 users after removing the copy protection feature - proceed > with caution if you do so) > > any feedback would be awesome! > thanks, > Chad -- 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
