On 12/03/2012 04:23 PM, Nathan wrote:
I just wanted to mention my experience.
I have wanted a way to do something that should be very simple - give my
app to someone free.
There is still no good, completely free way to do that.
However, I looked up the Google Play Gift Cards.
One of the options was to choose email delivery.
I bought a batch of five $10 cards at walmart.com and chose 'Email
Delivery'.
In 20 minutes, I got an email with five gift codes.
I gave one of the codes to a person who asked for a free license, for a
valid reason. I included the instructions.
Some things to note:
It helps if your app is exactly $10 (or $25, or $50).
You are still out $3 in that case if they buy your app.
You are out all $10 if they don't buy your app. Not a big concern for me.
They just better not crawl back asking for another $10 code.
In case you ask, yes, I know it can be free to hand out an APK. I won't do
it for these reasons.
I don't like passing APKs in the open. My APK is readily available on
several sites, I know.
LVL probably won't work.
Updates won't work.
I don't know if in app purchases will work.
After every single update, I will get an email from each and every person
to whom I have ever sent the APK, nagging me to send them the latest
update.
All the good feelings I had about giving them the free product for their
charitable nonprofit cause will then melt away and I will begin to think of
them as greedy and annoying.
Nathan
I have my own licensing systems for comps. Regarding in-app purchasing
I want to do a version 2.0 but want to know if the patent troll is still
a problem for in-app purchasing? I want to use it for discount up
grades for previous users or are there other ideas to do that? It would
be nice if Play were up to the some the stuff that has been available on
e-seller services for years such as coupons, etc.
- Brian
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