Poll: Have you/Would you pay for Android apps?

I don't own a smart phone, but I intend on getting one eventually. If it's Android I'd buy apps from the market, so I voted Yes (hopefully I was supposed to do that, because I would)

I've bought many android apps. There are some really good ones out there.

I spend $15-20 bucks a month on promising android apps. I should start writing reviews of them. I've come across some real gems.

I absolutely hate ads, so ad-supported stuff is rarely an option for me, Google and Facebook being notable exceptions. If I could pay a fee and get ad-free StackOverflow, I'd be so happy.

I generally use the ad-based version of an app (if available) for a week or so, then if I find myself using it regularly, I buy the "donation" (aka ad-free) version.

I'm not a huge app person, and the only apps I can think of that I've purchased so far are Launcher Pro, GPS Status & Toolbox, and Clockworkmod's ROM Manager. In all three cases, I used the free version for a while then purchased the "donation" version.

Edit: I would _gladly_ pay for an ad-free version of Angry Birds.

I'll buy apps, but at a much lower rate than I do on iOS. I've owned a Nexus One for about 6 months and have spent ~$25 in that time on 4 apps (Advanced Task Killer, Locale, SlideScreenPro, and WeatherBugElite). I have not run across any other non-free apps that I have any interest in.

I owned an iPhone for 2 years and easily spent an order of magnitude more on apps in the same initial time period, which continued throughout the length of time I owned it (and still continues with my iPad).

So, I'd be willing to spend $ on android apps, but it'd have to be a very useful app for me to notice it. I'm just not as conditioned to browse and find android apps as I was on iOS.

I haven't seen any statistics on it, but it wouldn't surprise me at all to find out that my experience is pretty normal for iOS vs Android users.

EDIT: Just checked iTunes and I've purchased 163 non-free iOS apps in 2.5 years, or ~33 apps every 6 months, so it is close to an order of magnitude more for me (though the plural of anecdote isn't data and all that).

Curious as to why more people have selected "Yes", instead of "Not yet, but I would pay for a worthy app". Is this because Android Apps tend to be good in general, or something else? (I don't own an Android.)

"Have you" and "Would you" are very different questions.

I have actually paid for the occasional app if I think it is worthwhile. Sometimes I've upgraded to the paid version if I've liked an app and want to support the developer (even if the free version is enough for me). But, it seems that many of the apps for Android are ad supported. While there is free data, that works fine, but when/if Verizon starts charging for data...

I just got my first android phone a few weeks ago and have paid for one or two. The pay version of Poweramp is the only one I recall off the top of my head but I think there were one or two more.

Of course, I've downloaded over 50 free ones...

Actually I registered a virtual credit card (don't own one, don't care about them..) for android/checkout. And a game..

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Yep. I've paid for a bunch of apps including BeyondPod, Vignette, Feedr, SwiftKey, TradeDroid Pro, gStrings and Soundhound. Why not? They're cheap and very, very good. If it's less than $5USD I'll probably not even notice, and between $5 and $10 I'll evaluate the app a bit more carefully first.

I also paid for SplashID because I've used it for years on Palm and it was great. This one I resent because it was expensive and the Android app is a bit shit. I'd really like a quality password/secret thing app with desktop sync and would buy that too.

I have and I will again. I just spent $6 on an app called Tasker (great app). I like supporting the developers who make my experience on my phone better.

paid software is a dead idea. a few protected niches, monopolies, people ok with making midling amounts off .99 sales will lnger on. the echo chamber revertabrates appstore / indie hit but cancels outs the thousands of flops

saas, subscrtion, powerups(in app purchase ala zynga), side channel sales (like mint, affiliates, 3d print avatar) and the like are the present and future making "big" money in software.

everything else is amature hour and/or playing the lottery

The first one I bought was the hardware accelerated version of my guitar tuner, gstrings. I also bought a cool sequencer/composer called Loops. Over time the barrier has gone down significantly and I've bought more.

My price level for no-brainers feels like $2. More than that and I search for reviews and such.

I tend not to buy unless I can try first.

I've had an android phone for about 6 months and haven't paid for any apps. In general I've found that for every paid app, there's a free app which is close enough if not better.

I also dislike the idea of buying software for a device that I'll be replacing in a couple years anyway. I've been burned by planned obsolescence in the past.

Not to mention I'm usually only on my phone for a very specific set of tasks, and I've already near-optimized those.

I will only ever buy if the app is of a very high quality, and if I feel that it is essential for me to have. The only application that has come remotely close was Locale.

I've bought a few apps. In general, I'm happier paying < $5 or so for an app than getting a free app with ads and privacy intrusion (many of them want an internet connection, phone state and identity, and fine GPS coordinates, which is far more information that I'm willing to give up for a dodgy free app).

I might buy more apps if they hadn't reduced the trial window to 15 minutes; there were some apps that I bought because I could try them out for a day, that I probably wouldn't have under the current rules. Really, only an hour or two is all I need; 15 minutes means that if I'm interrupted while trying it out, I have no way to come back to it, and for some apps, it means that I can't really give it a good trial at all.

I would say that I've spent between $30 and $40 at this point, which isn't a lot, but isn't anything to scoff at.

Other: I'd much rather support open source apps when available, and I'm sad that neither Google nor a 3rd party has yet made this easy.