I have a very popular website that displays US Zip Code polygons (http://www.usnaviguide.com/zip.htm). I've been asked by people in other countries, especially Australia and Canada, to do one for their country. I've resisted because the market just isn't there. The big market, the one with the cashola, is the USA. No other country, save perhaps China, has as much money or people with internet connections except the good 'ol USA.
The same is obviously true for Android. My apps are 100% USA only. You can't use them outside the US and for me, that's fine but as the previous poster put it, the developers outside the US are suffering because Google doesn't offer paid apps there. Well, paid apps in the US suck too. The pay-once-support-forever model is not the way to go. I would rather give my app away for free than use that model. It's simply unsustainable, the only way to make more each month is to have acceleration in downloads. The likelihood of that is slim. Google needs to introduce another model, namely, the subscription model. If I could "sell" an app and receive $.50 per user per month, then that is sustainable, until then, I'm forced to give them away for free and hope ads will support me. -John Coryat -- 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.
