The 1 year liability clause in the Market T&Cs is probably what puts most people off.
The publisher company would have to hold 1 years worth of sales of each app to cover itself against any potential charge from Google. Regards, Al. -- * Looking for Android Apps? - Try http://andappstore.com/ * ====== Funky Android Limited is registered in England & Wales with the company number 6741909. 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. On 25 Mar 2010, at 23:57, Zann wrote: > Just thinking out loud: > wouldn't it be viable for someone in US to take on a role as an app > publisher for the rest of the world? > instead of publishing with someone out of the Market environment. > > reckon the exposure for piracy will be that much higher. > > how it can be done is of course another question~ > - free lance app publisher create new dev account > - link account to ??? credit card/paypal?/bank account > - one time payment for out of US dev; X% of sales comm to be agreed > > On Mar 24, 5:15 pm, westmeadboy <[email protected]> wrote: >> About two-thirds of users of the free edition of my app are based in >> non paid-app countries so I get a lot of questions from them asking >> how they can get the recently-released pro version. >> >> I could suggest MarketEnabler or finding a US/UK etc sim card >> (inactive ones are fine) but I think most users would not be able to >> do either of those. Also, I wonder how easy it is for, say, Chinese >> users in China, to set up a Google Checkout account with a payment >> method that supports GBP payments. (Side note: AFAIK, even US users >> who have set up Google Checkout with an American Express card cannot >> buy apps quoted in GBP, for example). >> >> So I was wondering what most devs here do. Maybe: >> >> 1. Third party app market - in which case, which one? >> 2. Send the apk to the user directly - in which case, how do you copy- >> protect it and receive payment? >> 3. Do nothing and hope Google sort it out. >> 4. Something else? >> >> Number (1) seems the obvious choice but none of those app stores seem >> to stand out from what I can see and I only ever hear reports of next- >> to-zero app sales. They all seem to provide some kind of means to app >> copy-protections but I'm a little hesitant to weave in store-specific >> code into the app. Its also yet another thing that can go wrong. App >> store goes bust. User can't see update. Update gives error X etc. > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
