no. you can still profit from open source. here is how.
you keep the code open but private. most average users don't know how to
run and do not care about running compilers and stuff. also to gain
access to the code you require username and password so only developers
can access it. and to keep people from pirating the app, you make the
blindfold games as a main app with in-app-purchases. so when someone
wants a game, they go into the blindfold games android app, tap the
game, tap purchase, when you buy a game, the app downloads the game to a
hidden folder on the device and the app also manages that folder. at
least i think that is how android works. i could be wrong that the in
app purchases get stored in a hidden folder not accessible by the user
unless your device is rooted. most people don't root their devices. mine
is not rooted. I just care about using the apps and playing the games.
and my android tablet can do something apple devices cannot do. I can
use USB headhones with the android tablet. and they work quite good.
On 11/9/2017 12:18, john wrote:
This makes it rather difficult to make a profit from them, wouldn't
you say?
*From:* Josh Kennedy <mailto:[email protected]>
*Sent:* Thursday, November 09, 2017 10:13
*To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
*Subject:* Re: [blind-gamers] No more Blindfold Games or Updates
open source the games so blind android devs can port them to the
google play store. thanks.
On 11/9/2017 10:10, Arianna Sepulveda wrote:
Marty, I just finished reading your blog post on this issue, and to
me, Apple's new rules about apps don't make sense. Don't all apps
vary in audio, video, or text in one way or another? I'll be calling
Apple tomorrow on my day off about this. They're being unfair not
only to us, your loyal user base, but to you, a very awesome app
developer, and I'm going to make sure they know that.
Thamks,
Ari
On Nov 8, 2017, at 3:34 PM, Marty Schultz
<[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I just finished talking with an Apple representative, and Apple’s
decision is that unless I merge the 80 Blindfold Games into a
handful of apps, they will no longer allow new games to be released
or allow updates to be make.
From a technology perspective, that’s extremely hard and
time-consuming. From a business perspective, that would mean
spending hundreds of hours recoding the games, with no possible
return-on-investment. Most of the games generate sales in the first
three months of the game being released, and I’ve been building
these games for 4 years.
From a usability perspective, that means the main menus would be
ridiculously complex, and the settings screens would be confusing
and almost unusable.
If you are unhappy with this decision, you can express your opinion
to Apple. The accessibility desk is at [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>or you can call 1-800-MY-APPLE.
Thanks to everyone for enjoying my games.
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