Funky Expenses is shipped as in ad-support and pay-for ad free versions, both receive the same releases at the same time.
The current stats are 1976 active installs of the ad-supported version, 1 install of the pay-for version. Definitely seems like respond better to googlish model of free ad-supported apps. Al. -- * Written an Android App? - List it at http://andappstore.com/ * ====== Funky Android Limited is registered in England & Wales with the company number 6741909. The registered head office is Kemp House, 152-160 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, UK. The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's subsidiaries. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ed Sent: 23 June 2009 12:38 To: Android Discuss Subject: [android-discuss] Re: "Apple iPhone Developers Mostly Don't Make Much Money" I agree. The business model needs to match customer expectations. A a google customer I expect applications that deliver the user experience of, say, Google Maps, to be free. Why would I expect anything less? In business there is the concept of a price umbrella, where major players who define a market establish the de-facto rules for how it operates. When choosing to participate in a market, companies look at how the market is structured and choose to go into markets that are ordered and have a market leader setting a price umbrella that smaller players can live under without taking a bath... How much does Google charge for it's ads? Can you deliver a better return for advertisers at a lower cost by developing a product that is more market specific than google? There are a few places where that can happen with hobby enabling apps for young people. AT&T has business discount rate plans on the iPhone that erode T-Mobile's rate plan price advantage, for those who have access to them... On Jun 20, 12:55 pm, Moss <[email protected]> wrote: > The Market is still young and the whole Android system is more > OpenSource than Appel, so your business model should be more > OpenSource oriented (Free to use pai for service)! > > On 16 jun, 22:07, Aaron <[email protected]> wrote: > > > To this day, I still believe it's the customers. They are much > > cheaper, complaining constantly about having to pay anything for an > > application and rating poorly consequently. > > > In addition, there are waay too many free applications due to the free > > nature of the Market initially that no one is willing to pay for a > > quality app. > > > Lastly as more phones come out at the end of this year, the sales > > should double or quadruple. It's hard to make a mark on the iphone > > due to the large amount of applications available. It's easier to > > make a name on Android and wait for the sales to increase over time. > > I will call Android development more of an investment. > > > On Jun 16, 9:57 am, JP <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Of course there's an engineering effort on the side of carriers and > > > manufacturers to get them going with Android. And there's, for lack of > > > a better term, a cottage industry all the way down to eBay making c25 > > > on extra pics for auctions of devices that run Android. My point here > > > is that *app* users are going through the Market that has the big name > > > behind it, while a seeingly increasing number of devs are looking > > > around, wondering if they're on the right bus here. > > > > On Jun 16, 6:04 am, "Mark Murphy" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > You have a disturbingly narrow view of the Android ecosystem. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
