It's already happened, I'll send you the link off-list so you can verify it.

Al.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sean Hodges" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 3:12 PM
Subject: [android-discuss] Re: A worrying statistic ...



My fear is that people will get frustrated enough to get together and
"jail break" the Android market so that they can get hold of the apps
that they want...



On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Streets Of Boston
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I fear that the payment options, the lack thereof, is a huge factor in
> the low sales.
> I would gladly pay a few more percentage points of my revenue if
> customers could be billed through the phonebill.
> I would love to see a pay-pal payment option as well.
> I don't mind if the i, as the developer, can only use google-checkout,
> but the customers should have more options.
>
> If this won't change, i hope other android markets run by cellphone
> providers will open up.
>
> On Apr 1, 9:48 am, cnordvik <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Apr 1, 3:37 pm, Evil Mushroom Lord <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > I was of course speaking tongue in cheek. The Splatting has had 250
>> > people buy it over 3 weeks--- but I put up a lite version of it...
>> > and almost overnight 7000 people tried it. Why didn't that many try
>> > the first version? (not necessarily buy--- but just try)
>>
>> That was my point also. We've had >30000 downloads for the trial and
>> 50 have tried the paid version. Don't think any marketing will change
>> the fact that at the moment the 1 million Android users are reluctant
>> to buy anything in the market. Maybe we have 1 million "I want it all
>> for free" users and the iPhone got all the "I'll buy anything"
>> users? :-) Or the buying process is such a hassle that most users
>> don't want to go through it even if they can cancel the purchase...
>>
>> -Christer
> >
>




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