I'm not calling you wrong. Charge what you like; it's your product. I'm just saying that you'd get WAY more data if you gave it away for free, which would make it more valuable for everyone, and that the intellectual property you're talking about doesn't seem to have that much intrinsic value (who would steal it?).
Android device rankings based on benchmarks is nice, but sounds like something that can be read on a review site, and they'd likely include OpenGL benchmarks. You can get a pretty spectrum analysis in the free Tricorder app, which does WAY more than just that. Also, from your app description, you're benchmarking floating point math in Java and 2d Canvas, which is part of an Android device's performance, but possibly a minor part for some apps, like games. OpenGL performance differences can be huge, as I'm finding with my game, where on an older phone (the G1) I get glitches every time I play a new animation (like it's running out of VRAM and thrashing?), while on newer phones, even low-end phones like the Optimus V, it runs smooth as silk. It's hard to get users to pay for apps in general. The threshold for pulling out your wallet on Android is high, even among enlightened developers like us. There are what, 10's of thousands of apps? Even at a dollar each that would get quite expensive, so we have to be choosy, and as such paid apps need to be compelling. It's also not a sound marketing technique to argue with potential customers over whether they should want to buy your app. Just saying. Tim On 4/21/2011 6:29 AM, sm1 wrote: > The app provides valuable info to users: > - a comparison of one's device with others, > - a ranking of multiple Android devices, > - a spectrogram for acoustic analysis of live audio, > - updates with new data over time. > > The app does not automatically send any data to the developer; the > user must select the email function for this to happen. > > I doubt that many consider 'wrong' to expect to get paid a modest > amount for one's work or to protect one's intellectual property. > > > On Apr 20, 8:38 pm, Tim Mensch <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 4/20/2011 5:46 PM, sm1 wrote:> I don't want to make it free because I >> need the little protection >>> available from the license verification with the Market. >>> What's a dollar? >> What protection do you need? >> >> As many people pointed out, it just feels wrong to ask for money for an >> app where you're benefiting from the information it's collecting. And I >> can't imagine what you'd need to protect. >> >> Tim -- 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.
