I'd say the apps are only worth it as a money-making venture purely from the clicks if you create an app that gets a 10+ thousand downloads a day. But they are a good incentive for people to upgrade, in my experience.
On Jul 1, 4:38 am, Spooky <spooky1...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm about to release my first app, and would like some opinions > about adding ads and a $2 donation to remove the > ads...specifically, is it worth the effort (keeping in mind that > I currently know exactly NOTHING about how to do this).... > > My app is a simple photo Gallery, showing, in this case, a set > (one of two, assuming this one isn't a flop) of photos from > Point Lobos State Preserve in California. In the app, I also > provide information (via the menu button---and ONLY if the user > CHOOSES to select the option to view that information) on where > and how to order photo posters from this set. > > Here's the question: would adding ads, and a $2 donation to > remove said ads, be likely to be worth the effort? Or, could > doing so actually work against me by turning people away from > the app? > > Any comments/suggestions would be greatly appreciated...even > if only a simple "forget the ads" or "yeah, do the ads" response. > :-) > > Thanks, > --jim > > PS: If anyone wants to preview the photo set that will be in > the app, it's online at jdgapps.com. The site will > eventually serve for both my photography and support for > Android apps...but it's currently only the former, and > then currently only for this one photo set.... > > -- > 73 DE N5IAL (/4) | DMR: So fsck was originally called > spooky1...@gmail.com | something else.http://jdgapps.com/ | Q: > What was it called? > < Running FreeBSD 7.0 > | DMR: Well, the second letter was different. > ICBM/Hurricane | -- Dennis M. Ritchie, Usenix, June 1998. > 30.44406N 86.59909W -- 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 For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
