The people you'll find on the various android discussion groups are not average users. I'm sure there are android users who would rather spend 4 hours writing something themselves than pay someone $1 for the convenience of not having to spend those 4 hours, but I don't think that applies to the userbase in general. I have a free app in the market, and the feedback I'm getting is mostly from users who are not tech-savvy at all, and hopefully even those do-it-yourselfers will eventually realize that their time is worth more than 25 cents an hour... :)
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 4:58 AM, maribou <sla...@sympatico.ca> wrote: > > I think Al is right about the current Android user base. G1 is viewed > as a "smarter" and "less over-hyped" alternative to iPhone. As such, > it attracts that category of people who enjoy tweaking their Linux > desktop as opposed to getting themselves a shiny new Mac :) > Unfortunately for the developers, it's the Mac people we need to sell > our apps to. You know, the kind of people who are used to paying > 0.99c or more for a silly song. > > I only hope that Android will become more mainstream by the end of the > year with G2 and other phones coming to the market. Until this > happens, no matter what you do trying to increase the sales of your > app, your profitability will remain quite pathetic. Geeks are happy > to spend a week figuring out how to get for free something they could > buy in two minutes for a monetary equivalent of a cup coffee. I know, > I am one of them :) > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
