You are right. They care mor about customers than developers. For Google would be best if they could have only free apps on market. Then ti would be better for consumers... I guess that is the reason why only USA and UK developers can sell applications. Because other developers have to give their applications for free... But I also guess that other developers may loose patience and switch to other platforms like Symbian, WinMo, Black Berry, iPhone, Palm.
On Apr 28, 3:57 pm, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > Guys, don't know about Google engineers, but there is nothing new in > the system that you are proposing, at least to me. > > I've been waiting for something like that to happen and in fact there > have been a few systems designed to work like that, but neither of > them survived for whatever reasons. > > I think you are missing a key point here and it is that Google isn't > after our profits or efficiency - they are OUR worry. > > Google is after creating an enviornment that would benefit first and > foremost the consumer and maybe as a remote second - the developers. > > Users are thrilled by low cost, feature-packed devices with loads of > free applications, > > That's what Google is after. Given their history and corporate culture > - little as I know about it - I am not at all sure they have a clue > how they'd make money off it. > > But their history and the money they sit on say that if you make a > popular product people will come to it and money will follow. > > That's what are they trying to do. Android Marketplace is NOT a > revenue source for them and they hardly care to optimize the revenues > in it, especially at this moment. > > it *may* become curcial eventually, but that's only if and when > Android becomes popular enough to be worth monetarizing from it...just > like with google.com. > > just my 2c. > > On Apr 28, 8:41 am, Jay-andro <[email protected]> wrote: > > > +1 > > > Completely agree and support this proposal. > > - Would free developers from gunkwork and let them focus on features. > > - More usable for users by reducing clutter on AM and device. > > - Another advantage is that it prevents the situation where the user > > forgets to remove the free trial product after purchasing the full > > product, and if you have background processes or phonelisteners, they > > collide. Worse still, some users delete the paid product and wonder > > why they are still getting purchase reminders. > > > I would add to the proposal, one more strong like-to-have: > > > - Dynamic licensing: Upon purchase, AM (optionally) makes a call to a > > URL provided by the developer, passing an IMEI# or such from the > > phone. Developer returns license string. AM conveys this to the user, > > who has to enter it to unlock the full version. This exchange between > > AM and developer's site is secured either by source-IP restrictions or > > other password known only to developer and AM. > > > BTW, this is how BlackBerry App World already works. They have Try & > > Buy AND multiple licensing models to choose from like None, Single, > > Pool & Dynamic. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
