That's just crazy. How can they hope to compete with Apple's paid store? For sure that it's a different (and possibly exciting) interaction model for apps, but honestly the revenue is far less garmented. I don't see why they don't just take a cut from app purchases and then put that towards improving the store and offering paid apps everywhere.
I for one certainly wouldn't mind 10% of my revenue going their way if the apps store was fantastic and it was available everywhere. -- "The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution" - Bertrand Russell Andy Savage Cell Phone: +852 936 34341 Skype ID: andy_savage Linked In: http://www.linkedin.com/in/andysavage 2010/5/26 Tomáš Hubálek <[email protected]> > This sounds terribly. I love AdSense in web pages as it is not > annoying but sometimes even useful. But I really hate ads in software. > I wish what you wrote bellow is not true :-( > > Tom > > On 25 kvě, 20:41, Amir Alagic <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I don't think that this will happen any time soon for you in > > Singapore. Google is living on ads and few months ago Google bought > > AdMob for 750 million dollars. It it not in their interest to improve > > paid apps after they invested so much money in mobile advertising. > > > > Last year Google said that they will give us list of countries that > > will get paid apps... but it is more than a year and still almost > > nothing. There were some rumors that paid apps will come to Sweden at > > the end of Q1 2009, then that it will come in october 2009, then that > > it will come in Q1 2010 but nothing. Many people ask questions about > > that on so called Help forum for Android Market but nobody from Google > > is answering even if some people asked for more than a year. > > > > People that were on Google IO got 100 dollars checks to use with > > Adwords/Adsense (friend that was there told me about that). It looks > > like that Google prefer adds... I hope that I am wrong. > > > > On May 21, 11:34 am, hotr0d <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > I'm surrently located in Singapore and I really love my Nexus one and > > > I would love buy apps from the market place. I hope the ability to buy > > > android apps from anywhere in the world (just like Iphone apps) would > > > be available really really really soon. > > > > > -- > > > 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]<android-developers%[email protected]> > > > For more options, visit this group athttp:// > groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > > -- > 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]<android-developers%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > -- 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
