From the portal site:
*Join the developer program now, and we’ll waive the $99 program fee for
your first year!*
Sincerely,
Brad Gies
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On 07/01/2011 6:55 AM, Carmen Delessio wrote:
I'm responding to the merits of using Amazon, not whether it makes
sense for each individual developer.
But, that leads to an interesting phenomenon:
Developers that don't have $99 will not put their apps on Amazon.
That will keep "hobbyist" apps off the market and will make Amazon the
place for developers who already have some success or who see
appmaking as a business.
The $99 is the first step in filtering out "hello world" apps.
The Amazon approval process should also improve quality.
Most importantly - why don't you check into this. I'm pretty sure I
read that the $99 was not being charged year 1.
Carmen
On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 9:47 AM, Matt Pellerin <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
That's great for you, it isn't for Devs with no extra money.
On Jan 7, 2011 6:41 AM, "Carmen Delessio"
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> The Amazon Android Market has3 things going for it:
> - Purchasing from the web rather than a device
> - Amazon's incredible ability as a merchandise/marketer
> - they sell a lot of Android phones
>
> I use Amazon for shopping the same way I use Facebook for social
> networking. It is where I go first.
> Their user interface, recommendations, and relevance always give me
> something to check or look at.
> If the people who purchased phones on Amazon are a bit like me,
then this is
> a good market.
>
> Amazon may become my Android browsing experience - wherever I
end up buying.
>
> Carmen
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 9:29 AM, aman <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>>
>> Ignore it. +1
>>
>> I don't think it's a good way to help out developers. It's more
>> like Amazon's way of taking a cut from developers. Really,
Market is
>> now covering the majorities of the world from what it seems. There
>> is no point of paying extra $99 a year and spending lots of time
>> updating your apps elsewhere everytime you make a small software
>> change.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Jan 7, 1:29 am, Al Sutton <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> > My view is that it's not a great place for developers. I've
written a
>> longer explanation
athttp://blog.alsutton.com/2011/01/05/926/but
<http://blog.alsutton.com/2011/01/05/926/but> in a
>> nutshell the yearly $99 fee seems to be not worthwhile, the
ability for them
>> to control pricing could be bad news for individual developers,
I have
>> concerns over listing as a non-US developer, and I'm a little
suspicious as
>> to why you need to sign up to the portal just to view the T&Cs for
>> distribution.
>> >
>> > Al.
>> >
>> > On 6 Jan 2011, at 20:47, Rich wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > > What is everyone's take on the Amazon Android market? Are
you waiting
>> to see how it goes before adding your apps, ignoring it
entirely, or already
>> adding your apps?
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