Comments on: A Pending Task for Google: Rework ‘Android Market’ ASAP ! http://www.whatandroid.com/android-market-problem Latest Android Mobile OS & SDK News & Developments Thu, 04 Feb 2010 05:14:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Prashant Sharma http://www.whatandroid.com/android-market-problem/comment-page-1#comment-70 Prashant Sharma Mon, 07 Dec 2009 10:40:15 +0000 http://www.whatandroid.com/?p=223#comment-70 Hi Ari, Thanks for putting your thoughts here... To an extent, i agree with you and probably Google as well. That's the sole reason why there's so much pressure on Android to gain market share in smartphone business. As market share rises, the app download volume will grow as well. Some of the Android policies definitely need to be re-worked by the way. All i can say is stay hopeful and keep developing apps for both the platforms until you start seeing considerable returns from Android itself. Hi Ari,
Thanks for putting your thoughts here…
To an extent, i agree with you and probably Google as well. That’s the sole reason why there’s so much pressure on Android to gain market share in smartphone business. As market share rises, the app download volume will grow as well. Some of the Android policies definitely need to be re-worked by the way. All i can say is stay hopeful and keep developing apps for both the platforms until you start seeing considerable returns from Android itself.

]]> By: BeMeCollective http://www.whatandroid.com/android-market-problem/comment-page-1#comment-69 BeMeCollective Sun, 06 Dec 2009 01:32:34 +0000 http://www.whatandroid.com/?p=223#comment-69 Hello! I would like to share my experience on this topic, please. We develop an application, investing hundreds of night-hours on it. Then, if we wish to sell it, Google does not allow us to sell in the market. “Canadian vendors not allowed in the market”. Ironically, they did take our 25 US dollars for the privilege of giving our free apps to the users, but no way to sell. So we put a LITE app in the market, and a paid app in Slide ME. The users see the LITE, free app in the market and ask for more and more features, for free. Nobody buys the paid app. This can go on for a while, but how long will it be until the good developers burn out and stop developing? In the iPhone store, the good apps are making nice money out of it (the best 5 apps make roughly 3000-4000 US$ a day). In the Android market, the absolutely best 5 sold apps (not mine, unfortunately) are making around 30-60 dollars a day. Free apps are nice, but they don’t put food on my kids table, right? Best regards, Ari Hello!

I would like to share my experience on this topic, please.

We develop an application, investing hundreds of night-hours on it. Then, if we wish to sell it, Google does not allow us to sell in the market. “Canadian vendors not allowed in the market”.
Ironically, they did take our 25 US dollars for the privilege of giving our free apps to the users, but no way to sell.
So we put a LITE app in the market, and a paid app in Slide ME. The users see the LITE, free app in the market and ask for more and more features, for free. Nobody buys the paid app.

This can go on for a while, but how long will it be until the good developers burn out and stop developing?

In the iPhone store, the good apps are making nice money out of it (the best 5 apps make roughly 3000-4000 US$ a day). In the Android market, the absolutely best 5 sold apps (not mine, unfortunately) are making around 30-60 dollars a day.

Free apps are nice, but they don’t put food on my kids table, right?

Best regards,

Ari

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