When my Palm apps were pirated many years ago the pirates said I was
"greedy." First off it was a niche app which probably the pirate really
had no real use for unless it was to impress his girlfriend who maybe
wanted it for free. Secondly why accuse small developers of being
"greedy?" Then my competition accused me of not "valuing my work"
because I was charging less than he was. But I felt I understood my
market better since I knew my customers and he was charging more than
they might want to spend. For them to just buy a Palm was a stretch of
their budget.
I was considering instead of a demo of making a scaled down version of
my most recent app with ads in it. I've got to say that I found the one
ad site I signed up for was a little disappointing. They asked for a
link to the program but there is no program yet so I just gave them a
link to the site. I wanted to know how the ads worked, what size they
would be so I could design with it in mind. And I recently got a survey
from them that wanted to know how my ad experience has been and I've not
even implemented it yet. Tech companies seem to be run more by
inexperienced scatterbrains that they were 10 years ago.
That said I thought about the app and decided no demo and just put up
the full version only. It has done very well that way. I went that way
because iPhone apps don't often have demos and it seems to work for them.
- Brian Conrad
Maps.Huge.Info (Maps API Guru) wrote:
Anyone with an app on the market has seen odd comments, I got one in
the last week I wanted to share.
http://www.androlib.com/android.comment.author.jlg1985-zqxqF.aspx
"$$$ hungry Dev, who added "AD SUPPORT"! U Coward, U didn't have the
b...@ll$ 2 WARN US? U just lost tbis customer. I suggest a TOTAL BAN on
app support"
Ok, I'm trying an ad experiment to see if promoting apps within an app
is a good idea. The ads are 320x50 and appear in a dead spot below the
app on the Droid only. Normally, there would be black there so it's
not taking any real estate from the app. I'm not making anything off
this experiment and am sharing the results in a thread on the
developers forum:
http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/11b0c9673e14269d/d35b35e8b407f442?lnk=gst&q=experiment#d35b35e8b407f442
I guess some users of these devices are dead set on developers making
anything off their investment.
-John Coryat
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