When I think of the market there are probably 3 things in play. There is me as a user buying apps, me as a developer possibly one day selling apps and there is the job Google are doing developing the platform.
The main reason I haven't taken a look at alternative app stores is my perception (or maybe expectation) that the situation would be massively fragmented. I buy stuff online from a fairly small number of sites (maybe six) and the thought of having to bother with multiple Android sites is off putting to me. Having taking a quick look at your site and app I'd say the lack of a automated refund option and the ads are small negatives for me. Since the official market and the IPhone have refunds I kinda expected you to as well. I guess the model you are using is contingent on both these things staying as they are and I do like the way your not taking a massive slice of the developers pay cheque :) Massive tangent below : When I look at the current market website and the list of countries that have paid apps I wonder how much commitment Google have to people making money from Android apart from by in app advertising and selling phones. Do Google really want to be number one or is it mostly about stopping Apple owning the mobile space. Why do so many of my app downloads hang and the stats on the developer console go funky for weeks on end. It all feels like some guy in Googles 20% project. I seem to recall a new version of the Market website from Google IO (4 months ago) wonder what ever happened to that. Paid apps is just a proxy for all that bad feeling. Why can a massive company not sell apps people want to sell to people who want to buy them? On Sep 28, 8:09 pm, Al Sutton <[email protected]> wrote: > Any reason you'd not use an existing alternative market (like AndAppStore) > but would use an alternative from Amazon beyond brand strength? > > I'm interested because my company runs AndAppStore. > > Al. > > On 28 Sep 2010, at 19:27, Peter Sinnott <[email protected]> wrote: > > > There is zero chance of me buying another Android phone if there are > > no paid apps in Ireland. > > Hopefully Nokia get their act together or the rumours of Amazon > > launching an Android app store are true and they support Ireland. > > > On Sep 28, 11:06 am, Mark Carter <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Paid apps coming to 15 more > >> countries:http://androidcommunity.com/paid-android-app-support-coming-to-15-new... > > >> On Sep 25, 11:37 am, Tobias Eisentraeger > > >> <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> That must be a major upgrade - they added one or two countries before and > >>> did not really prepare the developers in an official email beforehand. I'm > >>> excited. > > >>> On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 1:15 AM, Nathan <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>> I'm sure you all got the email > > >>>> "Please look for follow-up emails when we introduce paid apps support > >>>> for specific additional countries in the coming weeks." > > >>>> I wonder if they've been doing some testing, and that's why some of my > >>>> users can't see my paid app in countries that are already supposed to > >>>> see them. > > >>>> Nathan > > >>>> -- > >>>> 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%2Bunsubscribe@ > >>>> googlegroups.com> > >>>> . > >>>> 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 > > athttp://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.
