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| Marketplace and Freewares |
| Gadgets - Mobile Platforms |
| Written by vicott |
| Friday, 13 November 2009 00:43 |
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Marketplace for mobile devices seem to be the "in" thing nowadays. Almost every mobile platform has their own app markets. From the user point of view, it is just so convenient to download the latest version of apps. Unfortunately, convenience comes at a cost. And even more unfortunately, developers have to bear the cost. One can argue that app markets brings greater awareness to apps. This can be a good thing for shareware. Prices of shareware can be brought down since the sales volumes are likely to be greatly increased with the help of app markets. BUT what about freeware developers? In my opinion, app markets can potentially be a nightmare to freeware developers for a number of reasons. And these reasons repel a freeware developer like me from releasing our apps to the app market. Here are some reasons why app markets are unattractive to freeware developers:
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