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re his suggestions: #1, is doable, but Apple probably will never do it. Why buy the cow when developer will submit updates for free? #2, link tracking, will
by asparagui 14y ago
re his suggestions:
#1, is doable, but Apple probably will never do it. Why buy the cow when developer will submit updates for free?
#2, link tracking, will never happen. That's a whole can of worms (privacy advocates, etc) they don't want to open.
And so the cycle will only continue: developers build up product/skillset to a certain point, get bought out. The users complain, believing that by spending a few bucks on an app they should get ponies for life. Sorry, it doesn't work that way.
- deepinsand 14y agoRe #2: it already happens, just in a limited capacity. A lot of mobile ad networks (if in app, not mobile web) will cookie you with the UDID before and after you click on a link. Android lets you pass some referral information on links to the Google Play market, letting advertisers do this w/o cookies and also on the mobile web.
- jonnycat 14y agoIt's not widely known, but in practice, you can get effective link tracking using the iTunes affiliate program. Here's a blog post on the topic I wrote up a while back: http://www.coursenotesapp.com/blog/?p=16 http://www.coursenotesapp.com/blog/?p=16 .