Thanks for taking a look, Steve. Just to throw some stats your way: Facebook has 400 million active users and 70% of the users are outside of the US. There are also 100 million users that access FaceBook through their mobile device, so it's a great community to sell Android applications into.
It's also a great way to interact with your user base. When you click on an app, you see a picture of the dev (with a link to their facebook page), giving it far more of a personal feel. Users can see these are real people. A face to the apps. And my feeling is that the feedback will be far more constructive when they see it's not some faceless entity. One complaint I've heard from devs is they can't communicate with their user base if they find a bug and need to head off the stem of bad reviews or if they get a bad review because the user doesn't understand the product. With Zapp you can go in and see who left a comment or who bought your apps (with a link to their page) and address things quickly. And then you have the whole viral nature of the app, where friends recommend to friends and so on. This provides exposure to apps that traditionally get buried in the Android Market. On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 6:51 AM, gosh <steve...@unimelb.edu.au> wrote: > >sell Android apps into the facebook community, take a look at ZappMarket > > Thats a very cool idea - its given me a whole new perspective on > Facebook... > I've stayed away from facebook for years, for philosophical reasons: > I've always considered it to be an attempt to fence-off the Internet > into a private space, one not much different from Microsoft's attempt > years ago with MSN. Hated the 'login in' screen before you could see > anything at all - at least they've moved away from that. > > BUT, now that Google has shown itself far less International than I > would have ever suspected prior to Android app development (re: the > hard limit to 9 seller countries), it puts facebook in a whole new > light to me. It is effectively a very large social space that crossed > those national boundaries that Google has stopped at the border of. So > from a commercial point of view, it may well turn out to be the most > International player at the top end of the service providers > > Good luck to you with it. > Steve > > On Jun 29, 2:26 pm, Shane Isbell <shane.isb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > If you want to sell Android apps into the facebook community, take a look > at > > ZappMarket. It has a dozen payment methods including paypal, google > > checkout, as well as an offer wall. Pretty much anyone, anywhere will be > > able to buy your app. You don't get the instant audience of Android > Market > > but Zapp is a great way to build a community of users around your app. > When > > Android Market finally comes to Ireland, you could already have a good > user > > base built up. > > > > Keep in mind, to upload, you will need a facebook account: > > > > http://apps.facebook.com/zappmarket/uploads > > > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 8:50 PM, Mathias Lin <m...@mathiaslin.com> > wrote: > > > Don't expect an answer from Google, cause they won't. Just move to > > > another market platform. Google has no interest to offer paid apps > > > model in too many countries, as they heavily rely on advertisement > > > income. > > > > > On Jun 28, 3:15 pm, skooter500 <skooter...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > This is a disgrace! And I cant get an answer from anyone in Google as > > > > to when this will be available. > > > > > > Oh well. It looks like SlideMe it is > > > > > > Bryan > > > > > > On Jun 26, 7:43 pm, Tomá¹ Hubálek <tom.huba...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > On 21 èvn, 10:37, skooter500 <skooter...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > (though I have users in 22 countries). I am not going to release > it > > > > > > for free. It seems I cant sign up for a google checkout merchant > > > > > > account, because I live inIrelandand there are no paid apps > allowed > > > > > > on the Irish Android Marketplace!!! > > > > > > > Welcome to Android World where highest percentage of the apps on > the > > > > >marketis free... We are going to communism where everything is for > > > > > free and everybody is working for pleasure ;-) And all pigs are > equal > > > > > and some of the are more equal ;-) > > > > > > > Tom > > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > > Groups "Android Developers" group. > > > To post to this group, send email to > android-developers@googlegroups.com > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<android-developers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com><android-developers%2Bunsubs > cr...@googlegroups.com> > > > For more options, visit this group at > > >http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > > > > -- > > Shane Isbell (Founder of ZappMarket)http://apps.facebook.com/zappmarket/ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<android-developers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > -- Shane Isbell (Founder of ZappMarket) http://apps.facebook.com/zappmarket/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. 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