I'm curious why Google restricts alternative payment methods when they are not taking a percentage cut. I understand that T-Mobile wants to maintain its 30% cut, but Android Market isn't T-Mobile's.
Shane On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 9:50 AM, cyntacks <kevin.clout...@cyntacks.com>wrote: > > Hi, > > This just happened to me. This policy seems EXTREMELY APPLE/IPHONE > LIKE. Our application was suspended (not sure why yet, I have an email > into Google) but I can assume now after reading this post that it is > because we did the following: > > 1) Provided a locked down app with no trial version available. > 2) License Keys must be purchased to unlock the software. > > Now, I understand that Google may not want developers seeking other > routes to receive payments for many different reasons (not only > monetary & security of their users, but also to supply a clean/ > standard look and feel). To that end, we went so far as to branch our > development, one branch includes the source with the license key > restrictions and the trunk contains the unrestricted version. Now, the > unrestricted version is deployed at Handango, Slideme, etc and once > Google is able to catch up and deploy an ordering system we would > immediately remove all restrictions and non-standard payments. > > These requirements seem unfathomable to me, It just seems policies > like this ensure that the software available for the G1 continues to > be behind the iPhone, Storm, etc. We were hoping "Open Source" meant > Open Source. > > Kevin Cloutier > Cyntacks Software, Inc > http://www.cyntacks.com > > > On Nov 26, 12:33 am, "Dave (Mogees)" <david...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi there: > > > > I'm Dave from Mogees. We've been in contact with the Android team and > > are trying to resolve this ASAP, to get your app re-listed on the > > Android Market. > > > > On Nov 25, 6:01 pm, "he...@gamevil.com" <he...@gamevil.com> 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? > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
