2011/10/7 church.of.emacs.ml <[email protected]> > How about making a free version and an (identical!) "Support Wikipedia" > version that has absolutly the same features, but costs $2 that go to > WMF as a donation? :) > Why we should do this: It's an extremly simple way for users to donate > money. No entering of credit card or bank account information necessary, > just select one app instead of another. >
This would be pretty straightforward to do, I think. > Very rough estimate: 20M total downloads, 0.5% download the "Support > Wikipedia" version for $2, that's $200k. > Note that the app-store middlemen take a 30% transaction fee, so we'd get $140k and Google or Amazon (or Apple if we do an iPhone version same way) gets $60k. 30% sounds high but probably isn't much worse than individual $2 credit card payments. :) -- brion _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
