On 04/17/2013 07:52 PM, John Coryat wrote:
I still have misgivings about Amazon. Probably irrational but I just don't
want to deal with their system. I'm curious to see what experiences others
have had.
-John Coryat
Like Jim and others who reported here before my sales are a fraction of
the sales on Play with a boost after the Kindle Fire came out. I was
about to implement DRM for yet another third party store but now I won't
bother. Amazon's app is available for any Android device and doesn't
require the Google API. That means that people were able to get my apps
for the inexpensive tablets that are available and don't come with the
Google API. Play is on some of these devices now that Google has
reduced the license fee per unit. But Google has narrow payment
options. Sure in the US you can walk into grocery and drug stores and
get Google Play cards starting at $10 but those probably don't exist yet
in a lot of the countries where Play supports paid apps. Amazon has
more payment options for users.
And Amazon has developer support. You can open a ticket and get a
response. Where's that on Play? They did recently "suppress" my first
app because it won't run on a Kindle Fire since it requires the Google
API due to it using Maps. I wrote back that I already had a version of
that app for Kindle Fire on their store minus the Maps. They have their
own Maps now but I feel that is no longer needed since I recently
released versions with a 156,000 location atlas which includes DST
corrected time zones. And if I am correct it looks like their Maps will
only work on Kindles. In fact they had kind of a weird setup where you
could supply your Google Maps key for non-Kindle devices. I don't think
that will work. Also I need to contact them so I can update those users
who bought the first app which was released well in advance of the
Fire. However they do now have a check list where you can select non
Amazon devices for an app if you want.
- Brian
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