Disconnect wrote: At first glance, section 3.3: All fees received by Developers for Products distributed via the Market must be processed by the Market’s Payment Processor. "All fees". (And unless you have a weird contract with google checkout, your standard account is unlikely to do that 70/30 split, pay the carriers, etc - so its not the -market- payment processor.)
So all those fees I and other developers receive for in-app ads from various providers are in violation of the Market Agreement? Free, ad-supported apps are *products distributed via the Market*. And "all fees" from ads do not flow through Google Checkout. You saying all apps with ads need to be yanked? Mark Murphy wrote: That is "legal or business advice" compared to technical Q&A, which is the purpose of this list and the role of the Googlers on it. The very fact that he has to resort to asking here should demonstrate the need for a business contact to handle non-technical issues related to the development and distribution of apps via the Android Market. I have a contact I work with at Google on the AdSense team that I can ask about questions related to whether or not specific implementations are acceptable or whether they violate terms of service. I guess I don't much understand the response of "Go find yourself a lawyer to answer this". This is a question directed at Google, i.e., "Is it okay if I implement X?" Mark Murphy wrote: Hence, either you have the personal connections to ask the question of an executive at a multi-billion-dollar firm, or you don't. Why exactly would this question need to be handled at the executive level? Mark Murphy wrote: Asking the question here, though, is akin to asking a Toyota automotive engineer how their firm intends to respond to the various lawsuits and government inquiries surrounding the recent spate of security defects in their cars. That's not the engineer's area of expertise or authority. No, a better analogy would be if he wanted to know if added a spoiler to his Toyota voided his warranty and the warranty was completely ambiguous as to whether or not that would be the case. Would you contact a rep at Toyota (e.g. a local dealer), or hire a lawyer to try to interpret your warranty? If we *had* a contact address or venue in which to ask these sorts of questions (I'm assuming Android Discuss would be no more appropriate), then the question would be moot. -- 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 To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.
