As I read it that clause has two effects; 1) It is against the Marketplace T&Cs to provide users with a fully functional time limited trial version. So users have to buy the "upsell" option without being able to test the pay-for features.
2) All app payments are locked into Googles payment system, which stops developers putting even a paypal link in their app behind a "Buy the full version button". Personally I think 1 is against users best interests (users should be able to try before they buy even if it is time limited), and 2 is against developers best interests (why should they be forced to use one payment systsem). Al. Dianne Hackborn wrote: > This is probably the relevant part: > > 3.3 You may also choose to distribute Products for free. If the > Product is free, you will not be charged a Transaction Fee. You may > not collect future charges from users for copies of the Products that > those users were initially allowed to download for free. This is not > intended to prevent distribution of free trial versions of the Product > with an "upsell" option to obtain the full version of the Product: > Such free trials for Products are encouraged. However, if you want to > collect fees after the free trial expires, you must collect all fees > for the full version of the Product through the Payment Processor on > the Market. In this Agreement, "free" means there are no charges or > fees of any kind for use of the Product. All fees received by > Developers for Products distributed via the Market must be processed > by the Market's Payment Processor. > > On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 6:01 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > > I uploaded a game on the Android market 2 days ago called Path of a > Warrior. > It had a 1 time trail and after that users were asked to buy the game > to keep playing. > I used Mogees as the payment module, and I think that might have been > the problem. > > Google just send me an email saying that the application violated its > policies, but nothing more than that. Do you think it's because I used > Mogees? > > Any thoughts? > > > > > > -- > Dianne Hackborn > Android framework engineer > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time > to provide private support. All such questions should be posted on > public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. > > > > -- ====== Funky Android Limited is registered in England & Wales with the company number 6741909. The registered head office is Kemp House, 152-160 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, UK. The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's subsidiaries. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
