To beat a dead horse... :-)

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ethical?s=t
*Ethical: *being in accordance with the rules or standards for right conduct
or practice

Thanks,
Justin Anderson
MagouyaWare Developer
http://sites.google.com/site/magouyaware


On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 11:01 PM, Damovisa <[email protected]> wrote:

> I disagree.  There is a difference between ethics and legality - what is
> morally right is not always the same as what is legally right...
>
> Having said that, I concede the point.  You're completely right - if I'm
> agreeing to the conditions for distribution on the Google Play market then
> it's undeniably wrong to try to bypass those conditions, whether it's based
> on morality or legality or whatever.
>
> Upon further reading, my understanding of the terms
> <http://www.android.com/us/developer-content-policy.html>are that if you
> make any money through your app (with the exception of out-of-band goods or
> services), and you distribute that app through Google Play, you must use an
> "approved Payment Processor" to collect those moneys.  I've struggled to
> find a good definition of an "approved Payment Processor" apart from any
> party "authorized by 
> Google<http://www.android.com/us/developer-distribution-agreement.html>".
>  I suppose you can make the assumption that Google Wallet is the only
> payment processor that has been "authorized by Google" so I guess it's
> clear enough.
>
> You may be able to argue the language - e.g. if you offer Wallet as well
> as an alternative, you are "offer[ing] an authorized Payment Processor as
> the payment option" per the conditions, but it's probably not worth the
> trouble.
>
> Thanks for your comments.
>
>
> On Thursday, 15 March 2012 14:25:26 UTC+10, MagouyaWare wrote:
>>
>> I don't know if Amazon has an API for in-app purchases, as I've never
>> done in-app purchasing.  However, the point was that when I distribute to
>> different markets I create different builds of the same app for that
>> purpose.  I would assume there is something that Amazon would let you do to
>> achieve the same thing, but I don't know for sure.  I believe PayPal has an
>> API I believe for in-app purchases... Amazon might let you use that.
>>
>> As for ethics, when you agree to distribute apps on the Android Market,
>> or rather the Google Play thingie, you agree to certain terms of use.
>> Breaches of that would be, by definition, unethical.  Whether you actually
>> get in trouble for it by Google is a separate and completely irrelevant
>> issue.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Justin Anderson
>> MagouyaWare Developer
>> http://sites.google.com/site/**magouyaware<http://sites.google.com/site/magouyaware>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 8:08 PM, Damovisa <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Oh, maybe there's not... I thought I saw someone mentioning it...
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tuesday, 13 March 2012 13:19:29 UTC+10, Nathan wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mar 12, 7:33 pm, Justin Anderson <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> > For my own purposes, I create one APK for Google Play and a separate
>>>> one
>>>> > for the Amazon App Store.
>>>>
>>>> Is there an API for Amazon? I wasn't aware of it.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tuesday, 13 March 2012 13:19:29 UTC+10, Nathan wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mar 12, 7:33 pm, Justin Anderson <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> > For my own purposes, I create one APK for Google Play and a separate
>>>> one
>>>> > for the Amazon App Store.
>>>>
>>>> Is there an API for Amazon? I wasn't aware of it.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tuesday, 13 March 2012 13:19:29 UTC+10, Nathan wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mar 12, 7:33 pm, Justin Anderson <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> > For my own purposes, I create one APK for Google Play and a separate
>>>> one
>>>> > for the Amazon App Store.
>>>>
>>>> Is there an API for Amazon? I wasn't aware of it.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tuesday, 13 March 2012 13:19:29 UTC+10, Nathan wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mar 12, 7:33 pm, Justin Anderson <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> > For my own purposes, I create one APK for Google Play and a separate
>>>> one
>>>> > for the Amazon App Store.
>>>>
>>>> Is there an API for Amazon? I wasn't aware of it.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tuesday, 13 March 2012 13:19:29 UTC+10, Nathan wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mar 12, 7:33 pm, Justin Anderson <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> > For my own purposes, I create one APK for Google Play and a separate
>>>> one
>>>> > for the Amazon App Store.
>>>>
>>>> Is there an API for Amazon? I wasn't aware of it.
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