Yah, you might start with "not run by a lowlife thief". (And then end with "slideme or andappstore" :) ..)
Sounds like you got tired of having to buy apps to steal and want the devs to just give them to you. On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 4:07 AM, Tobias Eisentraeger <[email protected]> wrote: > How about paying the developers back, whose copyright you have hurt in the > past before thinking everyone would be warm and fuzzy about you suddently? a > full disclosure of the pirated numbers together with checks to the > developers in full amount would be appropriate. Otherwise no one will even > think a second about trusting you. .. my 2 cents > > 26.10.2009 02:11 schrieb am "Guess Who, You Probably have my Number" > <[email protected]>: > > > I'm sure everyone knows who I am. I have disbanded from > androidplayground. I am now looking to create a site that is fully > legit. I was wandering what as a developer you guys would be looking > for in an alternative market? From what I read there is a lot of > issues with encrypting and accessing APK's without actually having to > pay for them. > > Three options I was thinking about that I would like some feedback on: > > 1. As a developer it would require you to provide a "trial app" and a > "full version". The trial application will be free to download, but > mind you it must not be a fully operational version unless you are > incorporating it with a auth key yourself. The consumer will use > Google Checkout to purchase App or Paypal, whichever the Developer > decides to provide. The Full application will be available for > download once payment has been received, which is within 15 minutes > with Google and instantly with Paypal. Hence there will be a member > log-in area which you would only have access to once you paid(similar > to androidplaygrounds old setup but not just anyone can gain access > anymore.) In this area you will have access to download the > application you paid for and non other. of course there are a few > things that I would change before site will be set up, but that comes > with the feedback. I'm pulling this out my ass right now. > > 2. The other option would make it non-downloadable and only sent out > through email. I know a lot of developers would think this not useful > but take it from someone who made money doing it this way...It's easy > and it works. But there may still need to be a trial version, not sure > on this yet. In this scenario you the developer will get 80% of the > payment for your application and the site will take 20%. there will be > an easy to use upload page set up for developers access only to upload > applications to site that will then be available within 24 hours for > download(most likely sooner) A lot more would go into this option. > This method is proven to work. > > 3. The last option I was thinking is to create a recurring payment for > applications to be downloaded. But this would take developers not > worrying about there application being pirated since it would require > at least a once a month update that people will want along side you > the developer receiving monthly payments for you applications being > available for download. This option would take a group of developers > not just one. I believe to start it off I can use a minimum of 5 > developers. It would take nothing on there part but a constant update > at least 1 time monthly and the application uploaded to site and a > contractual agreement pretty much stating you give me authority to > distribute applications to users. Of course since they are paying > monthly they will come to site to update manually. This site would be > accessible from the phone and applications will be able to be > downloaded from the phone and payment can sent and received from the > phone regardless of what country. This way is also proven to work. We > had over 13000 hits in one month and of course I cannot disclose the > financing but a significant amount was made( not enough to dent the > developers pockets since most weren't updated versions). The more > developers included in this option the more customers we gain and the > more money you receive regardless of if you sell an application or > not. > > On all options all developers will have there own page > set up to receive feedback and applications requests driven > specifically towards that developers talents and maybe even make it > possible to receive personal applications requests that you set the > price for. > > Please feel free to leave feedback, I know a lot of you probably don't > like me but I do have a good business sense, I just started off on the > wrong side. Once any of these ideas starts to take off there will be a > free version of the site in the market to make it easy access from the > phone within a self contained application. > > Thanks, > Nick > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. 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