Al, your interpretation of the distribution agreement is incorrect. You may distribute trial version of your apps on the Market.
"This is not intended to prevent distribution of free trial versions of the Product with an 'upsell' option to obtain the full version of the Product: Such free trials for Products are encouraged." What is required is that if you provide an "upsell" option to a paid version, this version must be available, and available solely through the Android Market. "However, if you want to collect fees after the free trial expires, you must collect all fees for the full version of the Product through the Payment Processor on the Market." To put it another way, you can **not** use the Android Market as a distribution channel for free, trial versions and then complete the upsell to a paid version through another channel. You can distribute a free, trial version of your application that has an expiration date, and then sell a version without an expiration, but it must be through the Android Market Cheers, Justin Android Team @ Google On Feb 11, 6:48 am, Cédric Berger <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 14:15, Al Sutton <[email protected]> wrote: > > > The originally posted question was; > > > "I am earger to put my app onto the market, even for free (until paid > > apps are allowed). Is it allowed to put a time bomb in the app and make > > it useless after a trial period?" > > > So, in the case that started the thread, it's against Market T&Cs to make > > the app available for free until paid apps are allowed and then charge for > > it. > > Maybe but I am not so sure. > If I publish an application using my server (and needing it to run), > which will be online for one year, no more : I doubt the market T&Cs > puts me in the obligation to keep my server online forever. And so > this is indeed an application limited for 1 year. > > What I wanted to say is that an application said to be limited till a > given date is just an application which provide this claimed > functionnality. No less no more. Even when the date limit is reached, > it still offer the same claimed functionnality, and is still free... > but that functionnality is that it is not useable now. > > In case of a trial version limited in time, the paying version is to > be considered a different version. And it is anyway, since it is not > limited :-p ... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
