What is a valid reason to ask for a free license?
On Monday, December 3, 2012 6:23:14 PM UTC-6, 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 > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/android-discuss/-/XFQktQTMKasJ. 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.
