Fantastic! Great work Shane. Looking forward to the paid apps on SAM.
take care, Muthu Ramadoss. http://mobeegal.in - mobile search. redefined. +91 98403 48914 http://linkedin.com/in/tellibitz On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 10:12 AM, Shane Isbell <[email protected]>wrote: > As a note, there are some key differences between Android Market and > SlideME Market - http://slideme.org: 1) we will be supporting global > billing; 2) developers from any country can stock paid applications. 3) we > aren't taking out 30% download fees + transactions, our's are 0% + > transactions. > > This makes SlideME Market much more favorable to the developer than > Handango (40% cut), AndroidMarket (30%), AndroidGuys Store (20%). We also > have a SAM client similar to AndroidMarket, making the user experience much > better than Handango and AndroidGuys Store, both of which rely on xHTML and > traditional web carts, which is a terrible experience for the mobile device > shopper. > > Shane > > > On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 12:53 PM, Shane Isbell <[email protected]>wrote: > >> We, at SlideME, have been quiet on the android lists for the last two >> months and this has been due to the complexity of the billing solution: >> everything from getting the tax and legal issues sorted to security and high >> availability of our servers. >> >> So I just want to give developers a heads up. We have everything lined up >> to handle purchase of paid applications through our SAM client. We will be >> launching sometime next week. Our system will be able to handle >> micropayments for as low at 50 cents. As we promised, we will only be >> passing on transaction costs to the developer. >> >> So start prepping and polishing your paid applications, you only have a >> week or so. We are going to have a pretty big campaign push around this, so >> expect some serious visibility for your applications. If you are a business >> or developer that has specific issues or concerns that need to be addressed >> before launch, contact me or George. We will be sending out developer >> agreements as early as this week. >> >> We also have a couple of other big announcements for next week, so stay >> tuned. >> >> Have fun, >> Shane >> >> http://slideme.org >> > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
