I think it's a good policy. This has the side effect (intended or not) of providing a useful 'gate' to prevent thousands of crap/spam apps from being uploaded.
Having people register and making them pay a trivial fee (I would content $25 is trivial) is a nice way to keep it to people who really have a legitimate app to upload vs. everyone uploading their first Hello World app because it's cool. Bob Rose AndroidSavvy.com On Mar 15, 12:26 pm, MrSnowflake <mrsnowfl...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yeah, and not a $99 per app fee (*cough*Microsoft rip off > store*cough*) > > On 15 mrt, 19:03, Romain Guy <romain...@google.com> wrote: > > > Also remember that it's a *one time* fee only. > > > On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 4:06 AM, MrSnowflake <mrsnowfl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > You do realize that if you had developed this game for the iPhone you > > > would have payed $99 to register and that there is no other mainstream > > > way to get your app on the iPhone (as opposed to Android, which allows > > > you to install apk's from websites). > > > > So at a point you are correct: paying for free apps seems weird, but > > > Market is a shop and when you develop something in real life (an > > > automatic axe or something :) ) then you also can't just distribute it > > > too 1000 stores. > > > > On 15 mrt, 10:10, Chaton <contactez.arn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> It's a joke ! > > > >> I Developped a freeware game for Android and at the moment to > > >> distribute it, I noticed that I must pay 25$. > > > >> It's incredible. First, I spend time to develop a freeware software > > >> for android, and secondly, I must pay. It's not logic. > > > >> Is a way to distribute freeware without paying ? > > >> Else, my freeware will go the the trash. No good. > > > >> Chaton. > > > -- > > Romain Guy > > Android framework engineer > > romain...@android.com > > > 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 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
