On Apr 10, 3:20 pm, Amir Alagic <[email protected]> wrote: > I agre with Al. It will be hard to compete with Google. This is just > one app. I am affraid that more apps are on the way... Ok, app is open > soruce. So what? It also mean that it is free. How to compete with > free apps? Create another free app that is better than Google's free > app. > > Who wants to buy "John Doe" app when there is free app from Google? > Microsoft, Yahoo and other find it hard to compete with Google and I > don't think that an average developer can win...
You could just as easily ask: who wants to buy *any* app when there's a free app from *anyone* that does the same thing? Why should anyone, Google or otherwise, restrain themselves from making a free app just so that other developers can sell the same functionality? If there's a free alternative, that puts pressure on paid developers to improve their products to justify the price. And if those developers can't make their paid applications more valuable to the end user than the free alternative, they have no business in that market anyway; their presence is not helping anyone. Jesse --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
