Mark, You must.... not live in reality.
When a company or individual spends 100-200 hours creating something, that is not "money for nothing". Sure some people do it for fun-- I love software development and will code no matter what. However, when given the choice between coding for fun and getting paid, and coding for fun for free--- which do you think I'm going to realistically choose? Those of us who's livelihood is funded by code--- we're supposed to give it away for free? Is there someone that will give me a house for free? Cars for free? Food for free? Get out of your ivory tower or unrealistic idealism, and face reality. Simple fact is--- the capacity for money attracts talent and competition. Talent and competition = more higher quality apps and marketing for users which = more users interested in the platform. Speaking of art, you go back to some of the most famous greatest known renaissance art--- Michelangelo etc etc--- it was all heavily funded by by the rich and powerful Medici family. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medici I'm not sure I completely agree with Sundog that it's Google's fault. Sure, they could have designed the market better (screen shots, better categories, well defined different areas between paid/free apps etc)-- but besides that, they have invested a ton of resources into making a very nice open source system, and for that I give them props. Obviously I'm not happy either, >100,000 downloads with ~300 purchases with 3.9/5 rating on our last app causes me pain. (Heck, it was featured by the Android Market as a "top paid app".) I think one of the biggest problems at this point is simply there are 1/20th the same amount of users using Android compared to the iPhone. I'm watching to see if this changes. What else can we do? On Apr 22, 6:50 pm, Mark <[email protected]> wrote: > I think it's for the better there's no money to be made at the app > store. Code is art, and coding should be about art, and ones personal > creativity and vision, not just $$. Going foward we'll see apps on the > app store written because someone wanted to write it, not because they > were figuring on making a quick buck. If there was a perception that > money could be made for nothing on Android, it would attract all the > sketchy people, and not the real coders. > > my .002 cents. > > On Apr 22, 2:35 pm, Sundog <[email protected]> wrote: > > > LOL, just read it and saw they quoted ME as one of the unhappy > > developers. > > > Gee, leave your developers hanging out to dry and they get mad and it > > gets attention. Who would have thought? > > > CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW, GOOGLE? > > > On Apr 22, 3:29 pm, Sundog <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Here's a little more: > > > >http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30313661/ > > > > Shark. Jump. Some assembly required. > > > > On Apr 22, 12:15 pm, lbcoder <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > More of this BS? > > > > Enough already with this meaningless crap. > > > > > On Apr 22, 12:15 pm, BikingBill <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Huffington Post covers the issues with the Android Market. Also, some > > > > > breaking news on the RIM App World. > > > > > >http://www.huffingtonpost.com/william-volk/mountain-view-we-have-a-p_... > > > > > > Want to know why there are over 30,000 applications on the iPhone? Ask > > > > > Ethan Nicholas. Mr. Nicholas programmed a little game called iShoot in > > > > > his spare time. iShoot shot to number one on Jan 11th, with the $2.99 > > > > > game reportedly earning Ethan over $800,000. Mr. Nicholas has quit his > > > > > day job at Sun (good timing!) to devote himself to iPhone > > > > > programming. ......- Hide quoted text - > > > > > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - > > > > - Show quoted text -- 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
