I agree. The business model needs to match customer expectations. A a google customer I expect applications that deliver the user experience of, say, Google Maps, to be free. Why would I expect anything less? In business there is the concept of a price umbrella, where major players who define a market establish the de-facto rules for how it operates. When choosing to participate in a market, companies look at how the market is structured and choose to go into markets that are ordered and have a market leader setting a price umbrella that smaller players can live under without taking a bath...
How much does Google charge for it's ads? Can you deliver a better return for advertisers at a lower cost by developing a product that is more market specific than google? There are a few places where that can happen with hobby enabling apps for young people. AT&T has business discount rate plans on the iPhone that erode T-Mobile's rate plan price advantage, for those who have access to them... On Jun 20, 12:55 pm, Moss <[email protected]> wrote: > The Market is still young and the whole Android system is more > OpenSource than Appel, so your business model should be more > OpenSource oriented (Free to use pai for service)! > > On 16 jun, 22:07, Aaron <[email protected]> wrote: > > > To this day, I still believe it's the customers. They are much > > cheaper, complaining constantly about having to pay anything for an > > application and rating poorly consequently. > > > In addition, there are waay too many free applications due to the free > > nature of the Market initially that no one is willing to pay for a > > quality app. > > > Lastly as more phones come out at the end of this year, the sales > > should double or quadruple. It's hard to make a mark on the iphone > > due to the large amount of applications available. It's easier to > > make a name on Android and wait for the sales to increase over time. > > I will call Android development more of an investment. > > > On Jun 16, 9:57 am, JP <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Of course there's an engineering effort on the side of carriers and > > > manufacturers to get them going with Android. And there's, for lack of > > > a better term, a cottage industry all the way down to eBay making c25 > > > on extra pics for auctions of devices that run Android. My point here > > > is that *app* users are going through the Market that has the big name > > > behind it, while a seeingly increasing number of devs are looking > > > around, wondering if they're on the right bus here. > > > > On Jun 16, 6:04 am, "Mark Murphy" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > You have a disturbingly narrow view of the Android ecosystem. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
