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Yup, once it's free, it's free. Otherwise I think people would use this technique to skew their ratings and stats. Make it free till it's got 100k downloads,
by dpcan 16y ago
Yup, once it's free, it's free. Otherwise I think people would use this technique to skew their ratings and stats. Make it free till it's got 100k downloads, then put a price on it and people will think 100k people bought it.
I would LOVE just a few things in the Android Market:
1) To be able to give away a free license of a paid app to someone somehow. As a gift.
2) More than 325 characters to describe an app.
3) More than 2 screenshots.
- latch 16y agoSure people will game it, but doesn't seem like a particularly difficult problem to solve. Introduce the concept of promotions, and don't count downloads during the promotion period.
- masklinn 16y ago> 1) To be able to give away a free license of a paid app to someone somehow. As a gift. You... can't do that? Ever? Don't you get like 50 free licenses for each AppStore update? Can you at least gift applications on the Market?
- dpcan 16y agoI know of no way at all to give away a free license to someone. Even partial refunds are said to uninstall the app from the users device - tho I have not tried this so I don't know if it's true.
- alextgordon 16y agoEven partial refunds are said to uninstall the app from the users device - tho I have not tried this so I don't know if it's true. I can't believe this. Customers would essentially be paying some percentage of the app cost and getting nothing in return if they obtained a partial refund. That's just wrong.