BTW: Is there ANY success story about selling on alternative Market? I read some about ads supported apps and some about paid apps on Android Market. But NONE about developers selling purely on alternative markets.
I'm spending a lot of time with support of my existing users and I'm sure that majority of them never heard about alternative markets and I'm sure they will never install any of them. Tom On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 1:56 PM, Al Sutton <[email protected]> wrote: > Given your situation isn't access to some users who can buy your app better > than no access at all? > > Apart from that listing on an alternative market doesn't stop you listing > on Market as well. > > Al > > On 4 Sep 2010 12:10, "Tomáš Hubálek" <[email protected]> wrote: > > There is simple reason: number of potential users. > > > > It is just fraction of potential customers on Android Market. There is > about > > 100 000 users starting using Android Market DAILY. > > > > How many users does have alternative markets in total? > > > > Tom > > > > On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 12:16 PM, Al Sutton <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> I'd be interested to know why your ruling out alternative markets like > >> SlideME, AndAppStore, etc. as they're designed to serve developers in > your > >> position. > >> > >> Al. > >> > >> > >> On 4 Sep 2010, at 10:55, Tomáš Hubálek <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> > Hello, > >> > > >> > I'm going to create new calendar based app. > >> > > >> > As there is very limited list of countries where people can buy/sell I > >> > was considering to make it ads based. > >> > > >> > But I have serious concern regarding business model: there is high > >> > security concern as such a app could spy users and users of my other > >> > apps became quite sensitive for potential security issues even in less > >> > dangerous cases (battery widget requires ONLY internet access which is > >> > IMHO not a big security issue). > >> > > >> > I have no idea how to finance development of calendar based app if I > >> > can't sell on Android Market. For me only viable way (even if I > >> > understand that it may be violation of market rules) is PayPal > >> > "donation" based model when unlock code allows full functionality. > >> > SlideME and other alternative markets are not way for me. > >> > > >> > Google, please help! > >> > > >> > Tom > >> > > >> > -- > >> > 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]<android-discuss%[email protected]> > <android-discuss%[email protected]<android-discuss%[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]<android-discuss%[email protected]> > <android-discuss%[email protected]<android-discuss%[email protected]> > > > > >> . > >> For more options, visit this group at > >> http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en. > >> > >> > > > > > > -- > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Tom Hubalek ([email protected]), > > http://android.hubalek.net, http://blog.hubalek.net/ > > http://facebook.com/thubalek, http://www.linkedin.com/in/thubalek > > http://twitter.com/thubalek, http://twitter.com/android_dev_tom > > > > -- > > 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]<android-discuss%[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]<android-discuss%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en. > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tom Hubalek ([email protected]), http://android.hubalek.net, http://blog.hubalek.net/ http://facebook.com/thubalek, http://www.linkedin.com/in/thubalek http://twitter.com/thubalek, http://twitter.com/android_dev_tom -- 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.
