How about we negotiate 0% transaction charge and they match the donation. It
shows their support and is chump change to them.
On Oct 7, 2011 9:47 AM, "Brion Vibber" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
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