Google does not take a percentage from the 30% fee: it goes to carriers and for billing settlement.
See the blog post: http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2008/10/android-market-now-available-for-users.html On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Amir Alagic <amirs...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I really don't belive that Android Market has bright future. > Everything is going slow and it is strange that developers can spend > 400 dollars plus shipping... but we can't sell applications. > > But that is not the only reason I think that Android Market is going > to loose its role. In future Samsung, LG and probably all other phone > manufacturers will have their own Markets. > Android OS is open source project and Samsung and other will probably > remove Android Market from their phones and will put shortcut to their > Market. Why to loose such opportunity? > They want money and don't want to give 30% to Google when they can > earn that money instead. > > I guess that phone manufacturers will create much better markets and > when they do that it will be faster and better because they need to > earn money now when phone sales are down. > So we'll have to wait few more months but I guess that from october or > november we'll have few first class markets available and only smaller > companies that don't have its own Markets will > let Google to ear 30%... But how long it will take before even smaller > players create their Markets is just question of time. In the > meanwhile switch to iPhone, Symbian or just continue to write > Android applications and the real markets will come... > > > > On Feb 26, 12:48 pm, "vendor.net" <vendor....@gmail.com> wrote: > > I am writing this, because of this news -> > http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2009/02/25/google-blocking-paid-market-... > > . Is this true? And will ADP1 support buying payed apps? I am truly > > hopping that it will, because otherwise we will be not able to see the > > competition`s apps and many more features which will be missing if > > there is no payed apps on the phone. > > > > Thanks! > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
