Part of the reason for the subscription model was to insulate us from the ridiculous "If it's less than $10 it can be charged back automatically" clause. The 24 hours is bad enough, but this auto-chargeback clause has no time limit on it, and carries the potential of an extra $3 charge, we'd be looking at having to sell four 99 cent apps just to cover the costs of 1 chargeback that we weren't allowed to contest.
Hopefully Google will take a look at things like Nokias Ovi store, Apples store, and O2s litmus project and get an idea of how things can be run in a manner which is fair to both user and developer. I just feel sorry for all the devs who've currently got nothing for the $25 Google forced them to stump up when they signed up to the market. Al. madcoder wrote: > Good luck with Google getting to your problem real quick-like. > > I was all on board with Android 110%. I've invested months of coding > time to learn the OS. I've made several apps just waiting to be > released. Now I can't even create a merchant account. I asked why > and after several days, still no response (other than the standard > auto-response). Heck, they didn't even tell me WHY I couldn't create > an account - not to mention their policy says that they WON'T tell me > why, either! > > If it was just one thing like this, I could overlook it. > > Sadly, it's not. > > The number one thing is the software refund policy. It's crap. I > wouldn't doubt that as broke as most people in the world are (soon to > be), they will use an app for less than 24 hours and return it. Even > your subscription service would be enjoyed, then returned. Not that > people would want to steal from your company, but people wouldn't want > to use torrent sites too, right? > > I can agree with a 2 hour refund policy. That makes sense. Try it > for a little bit. If you like it - keep it. Not 24 hours. > > Also, the fact that people will need to use Google Checkout (thus > limiting purchasers right off the top), then making it easy to use > most apps for 'free', could mean a doomed market for android. > > Lastly, I can't even compare my G1 to the iPhone. "Oooh, the flip-out > keyboard is cool," they say. Then that's where the ooh stops. The > lack of fluid animations, transitions & overall slick user-interface > make my G1 look like a Lite-Brite toy compared to the iPhone. > > I don't have any choice but to develop for other phones. Maybe 'if' > the Android platform fixes its problems, I will reconsider it. But > for now its not looking good as a profitable platform for developers. > > I hope I'm wrong about all this and the Android platform prospers. > > > -- ====== Funky Android Limited is registered in England & Wales with the company number 6741909. The registered head office is Kemp House, 152-160 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, UK. The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's subsidiaries. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
