> > I have submitted our app to 10+ appstores and they have all been a waste of > > time (maybe except for the SE PlayNow but that was shut down). > > I'm going out on a limb and assume that these other app stores did not have > have the size, user-base, brand recognition, and trust Amazon has. Or did > they?
Well, that may be true. And many of them were not very well executed. But I feel that there is only room for one "main" appstore like there is only room for one "main" social network (read: Facebook). You don't search for your friends on Orkut or Friendster anymore because most likely they will all be on Facebook. If all the apps are on the Android Market, then that is where people will do their search. Amazon can't just have 70% of the apps if they don't add any extra value that Android Market doesn't have. If Amazon are too be successful they need to: - Block the Android Market by not bundling it with the devices (both their own and making deals with other phone manufacturers). or - Launch a web app-store that indexes both Android Market and Amazon Appstore That way people either can browse both or be forced onto the Amazon one. We have 1.3 million downloads now on Android Market. No other appstores has given us over 10.000 downloads. But still we do have submitted our app to the Amazon Appstore just in case it turns out to be a success :-) Personally I am a fan of a 99$ fee to keep away the spammers and junk apps, but I guess it is too late for that in the Android Market case... -- 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.
