I'm also not sure I believe your analogy to domains. For domains, it seems like there's something that can suddenly become popular overnight and have a high contention, because you can simply rip down what's there and put up something new. This is like billboard space on a suddenly busy roadway. But it's not really what happens with apps. Apps have some amount of inherent value, they're not something that really changes statically (except for when they're first released) and become popular and less popular in waves, they're not commodities... So while I see people trading advertising space and domains, I don't see people dealing in apps as commodities...
kris On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 10:34 AM, Kristopher Micinski <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Rob Jackson <[email protected]> wrote: >> To say "why should they" seems like a pretty short-sighted response. That >> would be like someone 15 years ago suggesting buying/selling domain names or >> websites as a ludicrous concept. Apps and Games are already the foundation >> of many multi-million dollar companies. Many of them are rags-to-riches >> stories. Others are earning an honest living through app sales and ad >> revenue. >> >> Google generates revenue by facilitating a marketplace for these goods to be >> bought and sold, and to be quite honest, transferring ownership of an app >> should be no more foreign a concept than a registrar allowing the transfer >> of a domain name. >> >> However sarcastic your response, thanks for replying. >> > > While you seem to believe this to be a serious issue -- and it may be > -- but the Marketplace is fairly lax about these kinds of things. It > does seem that they would want some kind of facility for handling this > stuff, but as far as I've seen, the market tends to be fairly hands > off, and while you're allowed to publish apps in it, you don't really > get much help beyond that. (This doesn't seem to be too much > different from any other app marketplace either..) > > I'm not sure how many apps form the foundation of "multi-million > dollar companies," but I sure can't think of many, and I would suspect > that in the cases where this does happen, the companies handle it > without help from the market.. > > kris -- 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
