Hi folks, just answerin the question from the thread subject, not continuing the thread: No,from where we stand apps do not make money on Android.
We ported two simple games that sell reasonably well for BlackBerry, Windows Mobile and even Palm, dead as it is. The ports are fairly decent and we tried both high price and low prices. Oddly enogh we had best results with high price and trial version published as free before purchasing was enabled and before they shut it down. People were complaining in the forum from being asked for money, but we still saw most sales at reasonably high price. Ever since the paid marketplace was launched both the interest and the revenue dropped. We tried anywhere between $0.99 and $4.99 and in either case we just saw many sales matched by equally high number of returns. Of course one can argue that the quality does not justify the price, but that wouldn;'t explain why similar quality (it has got to be similar on BlackBerry Storm) sells much better for twice the price. Again, from where we stand Android apps do not make money. For me it's because of how Android/G1 are targeted/marketed. I don;t blame Google, I think they do that on purpose with particular goal. I just fail to see where do we , the developers, fit in the picture. There might be suficient revenue to live on, but I don't see the potential for great revenue. Perhaps we should adjust to what people actually want and develop AndFart (after iFart, one of the best selling apps for iPhone) if it hasn't already been developed. Then again, that's not our type of app...which may explain why Android apps are not generating revenue for us. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to android-discuss@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-discuss+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
