The originally posted question was; "I am earger to put my app onto the market, even for free (until paid apps are allowed). Is it allowed to put a time bomb in the app and make it useless after a trial period?"
So, in the case that started the thread, it's against Market T&Cs to make the app available for free until paid apps are allowed and then charge for it. As for time limited apps in general, it may be possible, but I would wonder if the user would want to go through the hassle of an uninstall and re-install every month. I would suggest a better method would be a 30 second popup ad to buy the app which would appear on a regular basis (once per usage, every hour, once a day, etc.). The reason for this is that if the user uninstalls the app they'll lose all their settings, which makes it just as easy to install an alternative app which doesn't force this on them as opposed to the same one again. Al. Cédric Berger wrote: > On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 13:44, Incognito <[email protected]> wrote: > >> My interpretation is that it is allowed in the market. >> >> On Feb 11, 2009, at 6:41 AM, Al Sutton <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> *You may not collect >> future charges from users for copies of the Products that those users >> were initially allowed to download for free*. >> > > Did you mean that this particular clause disallow trials with time expiration > ? > > In fact, as I understand : if you download today an application stated > to expire in 1 month (11 march), this clause just impose that you can > always download again (for free) this same application (but will also > have the same expiration date : 11 march). > > So does not prevent applications with expiry date to be on the market. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
