----- Original Message ----- > From: "Erik Moeller" <[email protected]>
> > They are? > > > > Perhaps I've missed something big... > > > > (Oh: you said "user-friendly") > > Yeah. In-app billing is a feature of the Android Market platform and > described here: > http://developer.android.com/guide/market/billing/billing_overview.html Ahhhh. While I'm a fairly avid user, I'm not an android developer, and I hadn't run across that. Interesting. > Checkouts are managed by Google, so no need in this case to implement > a whole payments backend. Of course that's what the 30% fee is charged > for. The terms state that it's limited to "digital goods" which is the > kind of clause that you could drive a truck through. Looks like some > folks are using it for donations and "selling" thank you messages. Heh. > If we do this, we'd want to have a direct line w/ Google to clarify > that it's OK, and ideally persuade them to waive the fee out of their > love for Wikipedia. :-) That should be yourself, or someone like you, talking directly to Larry or Sergey; that's how that sort of thing comes about. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [email protected] Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
