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Developers pay $25 or so on sign up.

• stedaniels 8y ago
  Which barely covers a competent person sipping a coffee whilst glancing at the title of your app.
• jakobegger 8y ago
  And after paying those $25 they are free to spam the review team with hundreds of submissions? Doesn't sound sustainable to me. If App Stores charged a fee per submission, that would drastically cut down on spam submissions, and free up resources for those of us who actually put a lot of effort into our apps.
  • Avamander 8y ago
    Once you set a fee I know apps will be updated less often, it'd be sad for open-source apps - which I'd say are the most useful of all apps on Google Play.
    • zentiggr 8y ago
      So a fee on initial submission... updates not charged. Will still put a crimp in the spam-app floods.
    • jakobegger 8y ago
      If you spend hundreds of hours working on something, paying a reasonable fee to publish it is not going to stop anyone.