It's reasonable to expect that they will attempt to shake down everyone
who sells an Android app. It's not reasonable to expect that they will
actually sue everyone they contact. Nobody has the resources to do that.
I still think this is just one guy in a dark room writing threatening
letters hoping to scare people into sending him money. Not much
different from the Nigerian prince scam, only legal.
The more of these letters we see, the less likely it is that any of them
can be taken seriously.
My opinion of course.
On 8/9/2011 6:52 PM, makjaveli wrote:
The threat to get a letter from Lodsys about possible infringing their
"patents" on Android is quite real. We recieved such a letter
yesterday, we just provide a button with a link to the full version in
the demo version of our app which from their view is an "in-app
purchase".
We currently evaluating our opertunities but as a legal fight with a
patent bully and paying a patent license for the next years is not a
big option for us, we currently considering pulling all our demo
versions from the U.S. market and only offer payed versions.
On Jul 15, 3:38 pm, polyclefsoftware<dja...@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm close to releasing a new iPhone/Android local multiplayer game and I'm
looking into monetization issues. My ad revenue is still dismal this year,
even though impressions and clicks are fairly robust. And the format of the
game is such that I want to encourage new users to easily try the game for
free, so I was thinking of using a freemium model where the app is free to
download, then locks after a certain amount of gameplay and prompts the user
to unlock the full version using in-app purchases.
I'd be interested to hear any experiences of any developers who might
currently be using this approach.
From a marketing/sales perspective, how well does this model work? I know
in-app purchases for virtual goods is extremely lucrative if done well, but
I haven't heard any experiences of the unlock-full-version model on the
Android Market.
From a technical perspective, how easy is it for users to exploit such a
model, e.g. uninstalling and reinstalling the app or wiping local data
associated with the app in order to circumvent the limitations of the free
version? Are there best practices to avoid this?
From a legal perspective, should developers (especially indie ones like me)
be concerned about the current patent trolling and lawsuits by companies
like Lodsys? Google still hasn't publicly commented on patent trolls
targeting Android developers, have they?
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