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Some apps use a separate paypal link that avoids the market.
by bostonvaulter2 15y ago
Some apps use a separate paypal link that avoids the market.
- TillE 15y agoYeah, Google is pretty loose with their rules, and the Market structure passes a lot of complexity (ie, sales tax responsibility) on to each developer. I'm seriously considering using something like BMT Micro to sell upgrades to a free app. The classic shareware model, more or less. I'd really like to sidestep all the annoyances and time overhead that come with selling stuff directly. I believe the iOS App Store is set up that way already (where you're effectively licensing them to sell your software and they're paying you royalties), but unfortunately not the Android Market.
- rsynnott 15y agoThe Android market passes sales tax responsibility to the developer? I hadn't realized that; that sounds absolutely ridiculous. How do small developers cope with it at all? Yep, the iOS app store is effectively a publisher; the only tax complexities involved are countries which practice withholding (the US and Japan, in particular; unless you register with their tax authorities they withhold a percentage, even for countries with which they have tax treaties), and special treatment of royalties in some countries.