Am Sun, 5 Apr 2009 14:13:02 -0700 (PDT) schrieb Streets Of Boston <[email protected]>:
> > Hi Andreas, > > Question: > Which hassle are you talking about? > Is it difficult to buy apps from Germany? Yes, one can probably say that Google Checkout as it stands is not the nicest payment option for the German speaking countries. Personally, I've got some issues with paying for apps, but that's more general and some percentage of US or UK users will be similar anyway: -) for fun, there is seldom something that is relevant on the phone. It's hard to compete with Ebooks for a book worm like me. -) for work, I do not consider closed source apps competitive. Basically, I do have some internal systems (which are not opensource as they are most certainly to much customized to my way of doing things), and only the availability of source (joke, I wrote them myself, so source is not naturally available), allowed the system to survive going from http-service => AIM bot => xchat plugin (bridged over to xmpp) => http-service => cmdline entry over the years (mirroring all kinds of phones and data plans that I've used). Plus e.g. for data retention there are a number of legal issues, and so on. To summarize, a paid app would need to have a really great value, with with no possible competition from opensource for me to consider a transaction (and then I'd probably go for the hassle of wiping out my CC and so on), and while this space certainly exists, I'm not sure what would be an example: -) e.g. EBook Reader => there are more than enough ones for free, it's not critical so a closed one is acceptable. The most probable reaction if the options available would not match my "read-flow", would be writing my own. Don't think that reader "n+1", now with a price tag, would match better my reading habits. (Actually, guess I probably avoided writing my own, my current reader is getting better by the day, the author seems responsive and quite nice, and I think the only functionality missing is Search, and that will probably come too in the near future). -) Navigation. Hmm, I've got navigation builtin in both my cars, although without map display. Google maps fullfils this "map display" functionality nicely. OTOH, I might checkout how the projects to collect free GPS data are coming around, writing a navigation solution for that data sounds like a fun idea. -) Chat. Luckily we've got a free (as in beer) xmpp client that works fine enough, here the question for me is primarily that I do not want a 3rd party server to see my IMs. That is fullfilled with Jabiru. One of the items where I was tempted but the only relevant client that I found was IM+, which I remember painfully as crashprone from the days using it on the Nokia communicate back then. And last but not least, for all "serious" uses, you'll find yourself in competition with opensource competitors rather quickly, because there are good reasons to demand that property to future-proof oneself. And there are certainly people that have even stricter standards of correct behaviour (I'm rather pragmatic compared to some colleagues of mine). One thing that I also do not get is why some people think that writing phone apps is meant to be profitable. How many sales do you need to recuperate the time spent writing the app. Is your hourly rate lower than the rate of an Indian website coder doing outsourced sites in PHP? Not knowing the fine print for the Android Market, but at least selling apps on the iPhone shop is clearly to dangerous economically. (you pay almost half of your expected payout back to Apple as a fine for each returned app, and Apple allows users to return apps, no question asked.) Andreas > > (my app is a OpenGL app for playing a Rubik's Cube, Zauberwürfel). > > On Apr 5, 4:55 pm, Andreas Kostyrka <[email protected]> wrote: > > Am Sun, 5 Apr 2009 12:39:29 -0700 (PDT) > > schrieb Streets Of Boston <[email protected]>: > > > > > > > > > Hello everyone, > > > > > I localized my app for Germany, but I'm wondering: Where are they? > > > When the UK got access to paid apps on Android Market, > > > immediately i got a number of sales from the UK. > > > I have not had one sale yet from Germany. > > > > Well, what is your app? Personally I have not yet seen one app that > > would be worth the hassle. > > > > Andreas > > > > > > > > > What are your experiences?- Hide quoted text - > > > > - Show quoted text - > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
