[android-developers] Re: Amazon | xxx - Business Opportunity

The lack of users on alternative app stores is a big disadvantage.
Still, if they had a method for in app purchases, including of
expendable virtual goods and of extra subscription services, that is
super easy for users to use, I'd probably use their store. Selling
unlock apps like we have to on Google Market is a pain for the user
and developer both, and limited in what it can do.

On Sep 29, 7:16 pm, Shane Isbell <shane.isb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Right. Whoever is making the strategic decisions for Android at Amazon, is
> not terribly on the bright-side. Copying Apple's policies for Android won't
> work. Much lost potential on this one.
>
> On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Michael A. <michael.aki...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> > Narrow distribution, high entry fee, and terms that appear much more
> > restrictive and even more developer unfriendly than the Android
> > market,
>
> > Sigh. For a short while, I hoped we might finally see a viable
> > alternative to the Android market. No such luck, it seems.
>
> > On Sep 29, 9:56 pm, Shane Isbell <shane.isb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > As more details emerge: 1) only US customers; 2) $99 registration; 3)
> > only
> > > Amazon approved devices - it's a no-go in my book. What advantage could
> > this
> > > provide, with such a narrow distribution and high-entry fee?
>
> > > On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 1:34 AM, Doug <beafd...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > On Sep 25, 8:03 pm, Shane Isbell <shane.isb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > Personally, I'd use Amazon over AndroidMarket, if the rating and
> > comment
> > > > > system was any where near the quality Amazon has on their primary
> > site.
>
> > > > Personally (as a person who wants to get paid for work), I'd prefer
> > > > any mechanism that's built into phones that ship today.  That
> > > > mechanism is Android Market.
>
> > > > I have an app that's on both Android Market and SlideME.  SlideME
> > > > provides less than 1/100 of the sales that the market provides me
> > > > today, despite SlideME's superior market coverage.
>
> > > > Unless Amazon can position itself as a market leader for Android
> > > > mobile apps worldwide, I'd leave it alone.  (The barrier for Amazon to
> > > > do this is somewhat similar to the barrier any that desktop web
> > > > browser has over IE in terms of raw ubiquity.  Just wait for the
> > > > injunction that requires Android phone manufacturers to require app
> > > > market alternatives to require something other than Android Market.)
>
> > > > Doug
>
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