Letters are a long, long way from having a valid claim. I've seen a fair number of legal looking letters in the past which, when challenged, weren't backed up with anything more than a companies attempt to make their own position look stronger than it is.
It is, of course, entirely up to you to not use in-app purchases, but there are plenty of developers (me included) who'll happily use them to offer users a smoother purchasing experience to users, and, from what I've seen, that usually leads to higher sales. Al. -- Al Sutton - Funky Android Ltd. (www.funkyandroid.com) T: @alsutton G+: http://goo.gl/ymi9b The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's subsidiaries. On 17 Apr 2012, at 16:11, Justin Anderson wrote: > The risk is *vastly* overhyped. > Maybe so... still, I'm not taking that risk. > > > If anyone can come up with the name of anyone whose been successfully > prosecuted over it then I'm all ears. > There have been a number of developers who have posted on both this forum and > the android developers forum that they have received letters from Lodsys... > > Thanks, > Justin Anderson > MagouyaWare Developer > http://sites.google.com/site/magouyaware > > > On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 7:59 AM, Al Sutton <[email protected]> wrote: > The risk is *vastly* overhyped. If anyone can come up with the name of anyone > whose been successfully prosecuted over it then I'm all ears. > > Al. > -- > Al Sutton - Funky Android Ltd. > (www.funkyandroid.com) > > T: @alsutton > G+: http://goo.gl/ymi9b > > The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not necessarily > those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's subsidiaries. > > On 17 Apr 2012, at 14:50, Justin Anderson wrote: > >> An In-app purchase would be a more efficient way. That allows you to have >> one APK. >> Yes it would... but it also comes with the huge risk of patent lawsuits... >> As a lone developer, I'm not willing to take that risk, especially since >> Google isn't really doing much to protect their developers. Just google >> "lodys android" and you will find all sorts of articles about it... >> >> Thanks, >> Justin Anderson >> MagouyaWare Developer >> http://sites.google.com/site/magouyaware >> >> >> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 12:04 AM, Al Sutton <[email protected]> wrote: >> An In-app purchase would be a more efficient way. That allows you to have >> one APK. >> >> Details at >> http://developer.android.com/guide/market/billing/billing_overview.html >> >> Al. >> -- >> Al Sutton - Funky Android Ltd. >> (www.funkyandroid.com) >> >> T: @alsutton >> G+: http://goo.gl/ymi9b >> >> The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not >> necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's >> subsidiaries. >> >> On 16 Apr 2012, at 23:22, Justin Anderson wrote: >> >>> Does Google Play support this kind of model? If so, how? >>> There are several ways to do this. Google Play supports an in-app >>> purchasing model that might be beneficial to you. There are some issues >>> with that though, in regards to patent trolls (Lodsys). >>> >>> If you don't want to do in-app purchasing, you essentially have two options: >>> Provide two completely separate APK's with different packages... one would >>> be the free limited version and the other would be the paid version. >>> You could provide a free app (that includes all the code for the paid >>> version) and an unlocker app that unlocks paid functionality in the free >>> app. >>> >>> There is another discussion on this list that discusses all of these >>> options and their pros/cons... >>> https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!search/Demo$2FFull/android-developers/hjnzHJvLCwc/frTYjEihmfoJ >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Justin Anderson >>> MagouyaWare Developer >>> http://sites.google.com/site/magouyaware >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 4:13 PM, [email protected] >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I will soon be uploading my first app to Google Play. I was thinking >>> that I would offer a lite version of the app with limited capabilities >>> that people could try for free. If they like it, they could buy the >>> full version of the app. Does Google Play support this kind of >>> model? 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