It's not just a few minutes of work. Dealing with alternative stores take some extra time on every new release.
Also, in my app I use market:// urls. A new store means a new app flavour with specific hard-coded urls, which requires custom development, and makes my build system heavier. So I don't feel like adding my app to just any store. Your store looks cool. But, I can't find any documentation about intent filters on your site. Do you provide anything similar to the market:// links? Olivier On 09/05/2010 10:14 AM, Al Sutton wrote: > Alternative markets suffer the chicken and egg problem; Without > developers listing apps users aren't attracted to them, and without > users attracted to them developers won't list apps, so it's really down > to developers to decide which revenue model and markets they like, > because if developers don't support alternative markets by listing apps > then those markets will most likely go under and users without market > will be left with less and less legal routes to get apps. > > Here are the last 3 months download stats, and yes we are growing, but > keep in mind that we only have ~1% of the apps market has, and that > market comes pre-installed on the most popular devices (so we have a > fraction of the number of users market does); > > June 2010: ~100,000 app downloads > July 2010 : ~115,000 app downloads > Aug 2010 : ~150,000 app downloads > > The big jump in August was partly download Augen offering AndAppStore as > a Market replacement after mistakenly shipping Market on their tablets, > and the SmartQ v7 being released and many of it's users choosing to > download the AndAppStore client (our figures show it as now being one of > the top 5 devices running the client). Given this we're now > pro-actively approaching OEMs and offering them the client on a royalty > and contract free basis, which should help drive the numbers even further. > > But as I said earlier, without developer support the numbers will > stagnate, so if you can spare 5 minutes then it's worth giving > AndAppStore a try because even if you pick up a couple of hundred extra > users that's more ad revenue, paid revenue, or just more people who get > a chance to appreciate your work :). > > 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 5 Sep 2010, at 02:18, Incognito wrote: > >> Downloads per month? Regardless of free or paid would be a nice >> statistic. The statistics for the last 12 months would be interesting. >> If you are growing then it may entice developers. >> >> On Sep 4, 2010, at 4:03 PM, Al Sutton <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >>> In all honesty we don't know. >>> >>> AndAppStore doesn't take a cut of sales so we don't so we don't stop >>> developers listing apps which use an in-app payment method outside of >>> our systems method to either upsell from a demo/lite version to the >>> full version or sell additional features (and I know of some apps >>> that use that sales route and use PayPal without involving us) so >>> even if I gave a figure for sales via our systems it would miss out >>> these other sales channels. >>> >>> If your interested give AndAppStore a spin. It takes about 5 mins to >>> create an account and list an app, and if you're not happy with sales >>> then you can set the releases to be unavailable to the public and >>> your app gets delisted and all you've wasted is 5 mins. If, on the >>> other hand, you get some sales then it could be 5 mins well spent :). >>> >>> Al. >>> >>> P.s. If you're wondering; The user pays the developer directly via >>> PayPal, so we take nothing from your sales, we, instead, make our >>> money from ads & customising our client for OEMs, and you get all the >>> money from sales of your app. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On 4 Sep 2010, at 20:31, Incognito < >>> <mailto:[email protected]>[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> >>>> What about the overall sales per month? >>>> >>>> On Sep 4, 2010, at 9:25 AM, Al Sutton < <mailto:[email protected]> >>>> <mailto:[email protected]>[email protected] >>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>>>> From: "Al Sutton" < <mailto:[email protected]> >>>>> <mailto:[email protected]> >>>>> <mailto:[email protected]>[email protected] >>>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> >>>>> Date: 4 Sep 2010 14:21 >>>>> Subject: >>>>> To: < <mailto:[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected]> >>>>> <mailto:[email protected]>[email protected] >>>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> >>>>> >>>>> Tom, >>>>> >>>>> Only app developers can give you revenue comparison figures (we >>>>> don't know >>>>> how much they earn via Market), but I can tell you we have several >>>>> developers making hundreds of dollars a month in sales (and some >>>>> into the >>>>> thousands) through AndAppStore, and all that from about 5 mins work >>>>> listing >>>>> their app. >>>>> >>>>> As I've said before; Listing on AndAppStore doesn't stop you listing on >>>>> Market, so doing comparisons isn't all that useful because it's not >>>>> an a/b >>>>> choice, it's an a/a+b one. >>>>> >>>>> Al. >>>>> >>>>> P.S. 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