...and without games, the platform may not be very successful.
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Incognito <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Agree. > > On Mar 23, 2009, at 8:34 PM, Eric Mill <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Er, let's look at this from a consumer's point of view. A 24 hour > refund policy is wonderful. Every single person I inform about the > refund policy is taken aback by how great it is. > > If Google turns it into something publishers can opt in or out of, > then that's one more thing consumers have to think about while > purchasing apps, and many are not going to pay enough attention. > People are going to feel deceived if most of the apps are refundable, > but suddenly they buy a $10 app that is not. > > I don't really care if this weakens Android Market sales margins. If > the Android is a big success, the sales margins are still going to be > high enough, and the # of potential customers high enough, that people > will continue making apps for them. > > And by the way - I am a publisher, of a paid app (or I will be in a > few days, we're just setting up administrative details now), and this > is still my perspective. > > -- Eric > > On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 7:06 AM, madcoder <[email protected]> wrote: > > My opinion is that it should be up to the developer for the refund > period, if any at all are offered. For example, a developer could > market an app as refundable within x hours of installing, or not > refundable at all. In the end, it's still up to the consumers to > decide to buy or not to buy. Why is this such a bad concept? If > someone buys an app, and it doesn't work, and the developer fails to > fix it, then call the credit card company and get it charged back. > > If I think an app might be crap, then I'll wait for reviews, either in > the market or somewhere on the web. People whine about the Apple App > store but it still manages a tremendous amount of sales. To say that > each and every item can be returned before 24 (or 48) hours is > horrible. > > Until Google/OHA changes this, there is probably going to be plenty of > people abusing the market. And OHA members can look forward to VERY > weak Android Market sales profits. > > > > On Mar 23, 11:41 am, Eric Mill <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey, calm down. It's not the seller's fault that Google only gave them > the choice of Applications, or Games. Neither is a good fit. > > -- Eric > > On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 11:10 PM, lbcoder <[email protected]> wrote: > > You know, it actually seems quite inappropriate and exceedingly RUDE > to be selling that type of content in the APPLICATIONS market. Media/ > books/other data != applications. It would be very nice if that crap > wouldn't be polluting the market. There is no reason that these things > should be marketed as applications. If you want to sell books, give > away or sell a READER APPLICATION that provides access to a > SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE. Sell or give away ONE reader application that > can subscribe to or buy MANY books/comics/whatever. > > Note that this would also solve YOUR problem with refunds since YOUR > service is subject to YOUR TERMS. > > On Mar 22, 10:36 pm, "[email protected]" > <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for the answers. > > On Mar 22, 6:03 pm, Jon Colverson <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mar 22, 10:44 pm, "[email protected]" > > <[email protected]> wrote: > Why are there refunds allowed onbooks(whether they are digital comic > booksor motion comicbooksor any other regularbooks)? This does not > seem fair since it can be downloaded, read and then refunded and yet > they still get to keep it and re-read it as many times as they want. > > When a buyer uses therefundbutton the app is automatically > uninstalled from the phone. > > -- > Jon > > > > > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
