Quick update to the community. We will be rolling out production support for billing between the evening of the 8th (PST) and the following morning. Current users of SAM will be affected. Downloads will be blocked and current applications feeds will be inactive. This means that new users of SAM will just see a blank page, without catalog info. Old users (SAM 2.1/2.2) will see the catalog but will be unable to download. We expect the outage to last up to two hours.
Users will need to download SAM 2.3 to purchase applications. Developers will have to agree to our Marketplace terms to have their application available. You will be able to agree to them from the site on Thursday/Friday. I'll ping the list when this is available. As part of this release, we are introducing high availability, so for future releases, we expect to have little-to-no down time, in most cases. Shane On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 8:58 PM, Muthu Ramadoss <[email protected]>wrote: > Completely agree, its hard to believe that its been a more than a year with > Android. Android is alive and kicking like never before. > > Wishing all droids an > > Healthy & Wealthy 2009! > > take care, > Muthu Ramadoss. > > http://mobeegal.in - mobile search. redefined. +91 98403 48914 > http://linkedin.com/in/tellibitz > > > On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Shane Isbell <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Thanks Muthu, It's been a bit of a wild ride on this one. Getting the >> int'l and domestic tax issues resolved, working with merchant processors and >> connecting all the moving components on this one was pretty challenging for >> our team. Fortunately, we had some great advisers. Now we can get back to >> focusing on product development and the community. Hard to believe it's been >> over a year since we first started. >> >> Shane >> >> >> On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 9:34 PM, Muthu Ramadoss <[email protected] >> > wrote: >> >>> 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
