[android-developers] Re: I must pay 25$ to distribute a FREEWARE on Android Market

2009-03-16 Thread frizzo
>>I think it's a good policy. This has the side effect (intended or not) of providing a useful 'gate' to prevent thousands of crap/spam apps from being uploaded. <<< Didn't prevent my crap app from being uploaded. :) --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this mess

[android-developers] Re: I must pay 25$ to distribute a FREEWARE on Android Market

2009-03-16 Thread Al Sutton
Do you want to move this discussion to http://groups.google.com/group/android-app-distribution There have been requests recently to keep this list focused on problems with the API. Al. bouvetloz...@gmail.com wrote: > It's worse, if you're outside US/UK you can only distribute it as > freeware

[android-developers] Re: I must pay 25$ to distribute a FREEWARE on Android Market

2009-03-16 Thread bouvetloz...@gmail.com
It's worse, if you're outside US/UK you can only distribute it as freeware, since last October. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-d

[android-developers] Re: I must pay 25$ to distribute a FREEWARE on Android Market

2009-03-16 Thread whitemice
Distribution of apps (even free ones) over the Android Market isn’t free for Google. Worst case: why don’t you just ask someone else to distribute the app on your behalf? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Group

[android-developers] Re: I must pay 25$ to distribute a FREEWARE on Android Market

2009-03-16 Thread aclelland
If you want to get you app up without paying the fee you could always ask a current developer to release it for you. If that's interesting to you then feel free to email me. On Mar 15, 9:10 am, Chaton wrote: > It's a joke ! > > I Developped a freeware game for Android and at the moment to > dist

[android-developers] Re: I must pay 25$ to distribute a FREEWARE on Android Market

2009-03-15 Thread Bob
I think it's a good policy. This has the side effect (intended or not) of providing a useful 'gate' to prevent thousands of crap/spam apps from being uploaded. Having people register and making them pay a trivial fee (I would content $25 is trivial) is a nice way to keep it to people who really

[android-developers] Re: I must pay 25$ to distribute a FREEWARE on Android Market

2009-03-15 Thread MrSnowflake
Yeah, and not a $99 per app fee (*cough*Microsoft rip off store*cough*) On 15 mrt, 19:03, Romain Guy wrote: > Also remember that it's a *one time* fee only. > > > > > > On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 4:06 AM, MrSnowflake wrote: > > > You do realize that if you had developed this game for the iPhone yo

[android-developers] Re: I must pay 25$ to distribute a FREEWARE on Android Market

2009-03-15 Thread Romain Guy
Also remember that it's a *one time* fee only. On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 4:06 AM, MrSnowflake wrote: > > You do realize that if you had developed this game for the iPhone you > would have payed $99 to register and that there is no other mainstream > way to get your app on the iPhone (as opposed to

[android-developers] Re: I must pay 25$ to distribute a FREEWARE on Android Market

2009-03-15 Thread MrSnowflake
You do realize that if you had developed this game for the iPhone you would have payed $99 to register and that there is no other mainstream way to get your app on the iPhone (as opposed to Android, which allows you to install apk's from websites). So at a point you are correct: paying for free a

[android-developers] Re: I must pay 25$ to distribute a FREEWARE on Android Market

2009-03-15 Thread Al Sutton
You make it available for download from your website and use alternative distribution channels such as AndAppStore. More information on the MIME type you need to use is at; http://andappstore.com/AndroidPhoneApplications/publishing.jsp Al. http://andappstore.com/ Chaton wrote: > It's a joke !