I think a lot of the kickback against the $25 comes from Marketplace being described with the phrase;
"Developers will be able to make their content available on an open service hosted by Google that features a feedback and rating system similar to YouTube." (from http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2008/08/android-market-user-driven-content.html) Youtube don't ask for $25 up front, so marketplace isn't really the beast that it was originally described as. Apart from that, developers having to pay to list applications they generate no money from which may make Android look a better platform is kind of insulting, I certainly wouldn't want to pay someone just so I could make their work look better. Al. http://andappstore.com/ rpm wrote: >> Which has what advantage to me if I'm just wanting to make an app available? >> > > You can make it available how ever you like. There are many free > ways. If you want your app hosted, distributed, and searchable on the > Android Marketplace, there is a one time $25 setup fee. That is an > incredible deal! Stop complaining. If your app is at all popular > that probably won't even cover one month of bandwidth costs. > > >> For that matter, assuming other developers decide that paying for the >> privileged of giving back to the community is asking a bit much, what >> advantage is that to the user who will now have to look at several different >> locations if they want to make sure that there isn't a free app as good or >> better than the one in Android Market? >> > > Give me a break. That's like saying M$ should host every Windows app > ever developed on Windows Update for free (???)! Users always have to > look for software. This is nothing new. What advantage would it be > to the non-pc-literate user who has to search through 1000s of apps on > the main marketplace who are made by people that don't even think > seeing their app used is worth a measly $25? > > >> Again, if I were selling an app, I agree that $25 would be rather >> inexpensive advertising. To pay that to distribute a free app seems like I'm >> being asked a bit much. >> > > Distribute it off your own website then and you pay the bandwidth > costs per download! (or just use a different free marketplace) > > > -- Al Sutton W: www.alsutton.com B: alsutton.wordpress.com T: twitter.com/alsutton --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
