The threat to get a letter from Lodsys about possible infringing their "patents" on Android is quite real. We recieved such a letter yesterday, we just provide a button with a link to the full version in the demo version of our app which from their view is an "in-app purchase".
We currently evaluating our opertunities but as a legal fight with a patent bully and paying a patent license for the next years is not a big option for us, we currently considering pulling all our demo versions from the U.S. market and only offer payed versions. On Jul 15, 3:38 pm, polyclefsoftware <dja...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm close to releasing a new iPhone/Android local multiplayer game and I'm > looking into monetization issues. My ad revenue is still dismal this year, > even though impressions and clicks are fairly robust. And the format of the > game is such that I want to encourage new users to easily try the game for > free, so I was thinking of using a freemium model where the app is free to > download, then locks after a certain amount of gameplay and prompts the user > to unlock the full version using in-app purchases. > > I'd be interested to hear any experiences of any developers who might > currently be using this approach. > > From a marketing/sales perspective, how well does this model work? I know > in-app purchases for virtual goods is extremely lucrative if done well, but > I haven't heard any experiences of the unlock-full-version model on the > Android Market. > > From a technical perspective, how easy is it for users to exploit such a > model, e.g. uninstalling and reinstalling the app or wiping local data > associated with the app in order to circumvent the limitations of the free > version? Are there best practices to avoid this? > > From a legal perspective, should developers (especially indie ones like me) > be concerned about the current patent trolling and lawsuits by companies > like Lodsys? Google still hasn't publicly commented on patent trolls > targeting Android developers, have they? -- 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
