Slightly OT, but I hadn't heard of Apptopia before. Cool idea. Anyone had any experience, either as a buyer or seller?
Chris - habosa commented up top on his experience.
Thanks. Managed to miss that!
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#32I disagree with the part of his post that reads: "First, to do a chargeback when you are buying software and or intellectual property rights is repugnant. Its something you can never give back. No matter what. It can never be deleted. And you know this when you are making the acquisition." There is not other way to signal to the developer that the software is not what you thought it was. For instance, I purchased a n…
You make a really fair point. In fact, its why most really successful apps (and software companies in general) all have a free-to-paid model or some sort of trial basis. With Apptopia, we build in a "Code Review" layer. So if you are concerned about the quality of the code you are buying we can dive as deep as you would like before the acquisition is final. Also, all apps listed on Apptopia are currently on an app st…
I can only hope you will be improving the said 'Code Review' layer in the future. The 'app' in question is nothing more than a thin layer of badly written code wrapped around a 3rd party library (PhoneGap). It can be made into (and sold as) an indeterminate number of " video player" "apps" just by changing the hardcoded search terms (affirmation also enforced by the fact that the /bin directory in the zip contains a 'motorsport video player.apk' "app")
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#33I disagree with the part of his post that reads: "First, to do a chargeback when you are buying software and or intellectual property rights is repugnant. Its something you can never give back. No matter what. It can never be deleted. And you know this when you are making the acquisition." There is not other way to signal to the developer that the software is not what you thought it was. For instance, I purchased a n…
See, I don't agree with this unless the developer is grossly misrepresenting the app. You're basically entering an agreement with the seller but then breaking it to suit your purposes. If you're unhappy with someone's terms of sale then you should take your business somewhere else.
I don't think it applies to the app store but there is usually a chargeback fee to a merchant when a customer charges back an item so you're taking money out of the software developer's pocket if you decide to use your credit card chargeback mechanism to get a free software trial.
I do agree that it's really dumb for a developer not to offer a free trial. Personally, I will never buy software without trying it first.
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#34While it's always great to see android apps being made available for others to investigate and learn from, I have to ask: Are you sure that there isn't something else going on that would explain this behaviour? I've just installed the app on my own device (Galaxy S2), and the app is simply terrible. It's slow to respond to clicks, scrolling is laggy, I actually can't view any videos because the click event isn't trig…
Hi Daniel, The scenario you're describing is exactly what we try to prevent with our code review option. Likewise, every app we broker is listed publicly on either the AppStore or Google Play, so every buyer can and SHOULD download the app to preview it. I should also note (which I hoped was obvious, but after re-reading the post and thread I realize it isn't), that we actively reached out to this buyer to see what w…
Thanks for the explanation!
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You make a really fair point. In fact, its why most really successful apps (and software companies in general) all have a free-to-paid model or some sort of trial basis. With Apptopia, we build in a "Code Review" layer. So if you are concerned about the quality of the code you are buying we can dive as deep as you would like before the acquisition is final. Also, all apps listed on Apptopia are currently on an app st…
I can only hope you will be improving the said 'Code Review' layer in the future. The 'app' in question is nothing more than a thin layer of badly written code wrapped around a 3rd party library (PhoneGap). It can be made into (and sold as) an indeterminate number of " video player" "apps" just by changing the hardcoded search terms (affirmation also enforced by the fact that the /bin directory in the zip contains a…
Actually this is up to a buyer to ask review code or not, and there are different levels of code review, so, as Jonathan said you can dive as deep as you would like. The buyer in question did not ask for any.
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
On Apptopia you don't buy apps, you buy all of the source code and distribution rights to an app. So in this case the buyer bought the previously closed-source code, took what he needed from it, and then filed a chargeback. That's much different than buying a packaged app for personal use from an App Store.
They should have stated a brief blurb about themselves in their blog post. Not knowing anything about Apptopia, I thought they released something this guy created on his own from scratch.
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Go with BSD if you want people to do something with it. Unless you don't want for people to make closed source apps with it, then go with GPL.
Post Updated to reflect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_licenses Thanks for pointing this out guys. JK
Note that there are 2 common variants of the BSD license: "2-clause" and "3-clause". Don't forget to specify which one you mean.
I'm using the ISC license (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISC_license) which is equivalent to the 2-clause BSD, but does so with fewer and simpler words.
Also, the MIT license (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_license) is quite popular. It is also equivalent to the 2-clause BSD, but not quite as short as the more modern ISC license.