This is why I don't make free demo apps. Firstly, because I did some research, and if you find ANY app that has a free / pro version, the free version is always rated lower than the pro version. A pay only app prevents jerks from rating it unless they are serious enough to buy it. So really the Free version in my opinion could make you lose sales because it can make the app look bad.
Secondly, because people can still try an app and return it anyway for a refund. So personally when before I started distributing apps that I wanted to make money from I did some research and on the Android platform I see no reason to make a "trial" version because of these two reasons. -niko On Mar 16, 8:51 pm, Brian Conrad <[email protected]> wrote: > Shane Isbell wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 2:55 PM, Brian Conrad <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> My experience with trial period applications is the pirates will download > >> and break trial system to get the full version. But if you make the full > >> version only available as a different runtime as a paid app they won't buy > >> it to break it. > > > That's pretty interesting, as it means: 1) pirates don't want to pay > > anything for the app; 2) they don't want a paper trail with their (or > > someone else's) credit card. > > > I assume that there is a practical reason for just disabling the features > > for a trial version: ease of development? Easier upgrade path for user? > > That would really depend on the product. My users may just want to see > how easy it is to enter data and how it is displayed. In that case I > could offer canned data to demo the program. Of course with games one > that just has level one works well. If they like it they can buy the > rest of the game. Putting out a free version that a key enables more > features is inviting pirates to the challenge. It used to be that > complex registration keys were impossible to break until the pirates > started using zombie computers to break the keys. -- 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.
