That's true; you're right that there is a open platform between the AOSP layer and the APK apps that run on top of it. As you point out there is a fly in the ointment (which is enhanced by Google making it very…
Your post makes the case for itself, 30% of $13.32 is not $3.33. As Spotify raised their price to counter the apple fee, the also had to give 30% of that raise. To get $9.99 (for the first year at the 30% rate) it'd be…
This may have changed recently, haven't used an Android in a bit, but this wasn't true (and still probably isn't). Specifically my company wanted to break our app into multiple apps and give a way for people to easily…
As Spotify points out, and I've seen first hand, Apple prohibits you from allowing users to create accounts or enter contact information if your service has a paid option and you don't use apple's IAP. So you couldn't…
That's true; you're right that there is a open platform between the AOSP layer and the APK apps that run on top of it. As you point out there is a fly in the ointment (which is enhanced by Google making it very…
Your post makes the case for itself, 30% of $13.32 is not $3.33. As Spotify raised their price to counter the apple fee, the also had to give 30% of that raise. To get $9.99 (for the first year at the 30% rate) it'd be…
This may have changed recently, haven't used an Android in a bit, but this wasn't true (and still probably isn't). Specifically my company wanted to break our app into multiple apps and give a way for people to easily…
As Spotify points out, and I've seen first hand, Apple prohibits you from allowing users to create accounts or enter contact information if your service has a paid option and you don't use apple's IAP. So you couldn't…