$1 says someone's registered that domain by tomorrow morning :). The reason why it's AndAppStore is that I'm not ruling out a payment system in the future, but if we do go down that route there will have to be a free demo available for any app sold.
I've learnt from the company I set up a few years that if you give customers a free demo they are unlikely to buy it and then turn around and say "It's not what I wanted, I want my money back!!!". I can understand people want paying for their development work (my dev work pays for my lifestyle), but for those who want to live off their work I'd like to see is more demos and less of an attitude of "Well, if you pay me $1 I'll show you the app, and if you don't like it, well, it was only $1 wasn't it, it's not like it's a lot of money". Al. Peli wrote: > Indeed, "store" implies a place where one can buy something. > Otherwise, it should probably have been called "AndFreeApps" :-) > > Peli > > On Oct 24, 1:18 pm, "Randy S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> hi Al. While I appreciate the gesture for those who give away their >> work, my opinion as a user is I'd rather the existing mechanisms >> (ranking system, search, latest) be the tools to float the apps to the >> top. Otherwise; the site will likely be considered the site for free >> apps. The problem is that by showing only free, you're hiding >> non-free, which may not be what you (or those developers) had in mind. >> It depends on what you want your site to specialize in, and how to >> differentiate it from others stores. >> >> Just one opinion, of course. A good search will allow a user to >> specify Free if desired. >> >> On 10/24/08, Al Sutton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> >> >>> Guys, >>> >>> I've been thinking hard about the best way to show support for >>> free/shareware applications which may suffer under Marketplaces $25 sign >>> up fee and I received some user feedback which gave me a an idea of how >>> to help, so I'd appreciate peoples views on the following; >>> >>> -- >>> As of now AndAppStore.com will only show users visiting the main areas >>> (Latest releases, All apps, and Categories) applications which provide a >>> link to an apk users can download at no cost. >>> >>> This does not mean that developers can't submit pay-for apps, and if >>> they submit an app with out a free download it will still appear on >>> their profile page, but the main sections will, for now, only show >>> freely available downloads. >>> >>> Users will still be able to click on developers "Listed by" links to see >>> all of their apps, so if you submit 50 apps and submit a free download >>> for only 1 of them, AndAppStore.com, will show users all 50 apps in your >>> profile page, but you will need to list at least one freely available >>> app to become visible to passing users. >>> -- >>> >>> What do people think of this? >>> >>> Al. >>> > > > -- Al Sutton W: www.alsutton.com B: alsutton.wordpress.com T: twitter.com/alsutton --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" 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-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
