Even though I find working on this stuff extremely fun and rewarding, i'm not spending as much time as I am on it for free. Its just not going to happen, because life is too busy.
I have to agree on the purpose of the app store and the market. its about being competitive (although in googles case it actually services other purposes as well), however with out us developer being happy, they *can't* be competitive. the Blackberry app store is a good example... nobody I know wants to write software for it. - Brill Pappin Sixgreen Labs Inc. On 2011-03-25, at 2:05 PM, PatternMusic wrote: > > > On Friday, March 25, 2011 8:00:30 AM UTC-7, MagouyaWare wrote: > > What all these Markets should be doing is making sure that they > > interoperate, because us developers *do* want to deploy to all of them, but > > we don't need the extra work of maintaining several versions or deployments > > for each one. > > In a Utopian society that would be great. And I agree it would benefit us as > developers. But how exactly would that benefit their bottom-line? > Remember... these are businesses. They are in it for the sole purpose of > making money. Interoperability doesn't really have the ROI to make it very > feasible. > > The sole purpose of app stores is not necessarily to make money. Except in > Amazon's case, ROI may have little to do with the decisions involved in their > operation. > > Contrary to popular impression, Apple's App Store is primarily about > establishing customer lock-in to their platform not making money. > (Microeconomics tells us the less that apps cost (thus less per unit profit > from the App Store) the better it is for Apple's actual business which is > selling hardware.) > > I have serious doubts that Google's Android Market is really all that much > about making money. Android Market's primary purpose is to provide a standard > distribution channel for Android apps thus enabling the platform as a whole. > It's secondary purpose is to provide a monetization opportunity for Android > apps, again, to support the platform as a whole. Third might be to foster > development of Google's payment services. Somewhere way down the list (if > it's even there) is making money for Google. > > Amazon's Android Appstore is much more likely about making money since > Amazon's business really is content sales, and they see apps as another type > of content. > > - Richard Lawler > > -- > 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 > android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- 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 android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
