I got the "generous" offer from Amazon. People here told me how little I knew about marketing when I was hesitant to accept.
I didn't take it because it seemed to benefit Amazon more than me. Unlike the people in the article above, my app is not an experiment, it is my livelihood. Since then, another app in my niche did take the offer, and was severely punished for it. They got a pile of negative ratings with two themes: 1. People who obviously had no clue what the app was for. 2. The sheer number of new users overloaded the servers and made it look like the app was broken. I'm sure Amazon benefited. It might be different if I could consider the price of giving my app away for free as zero. If your app requires any ongoing maintenance, tech support, or server resources, this cost isn't zero. Amazon did sell my app for 50% off for a while. As far as I can tell, all that did was divert a certain amount of sales from the Android Market. And what happened to Amazon's (never officially acknowledged) Android tablet? Did the de-open sourcing of HoneyComb stall that? We may never know. 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]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en.
