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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Feb 12, 2013, 7:31 PM UTC

habosa wrote: post #20

eric_bullington wrote: post #14

I wasn't previously aware of apptopia -- looks very cool and I'm surprised I haven't heard of it before. There's always an interesting outlier project that escapes our notice, right? But I'm a little confused about this situation. Who was listing this app? (i.e., who originally coded the app?) Was he/she consulted about the situation? Perhaps I'm not yet understanding how Apptopia works, but I'm surprised you took th…

Just in case you're wondering, I sold my app on Apptopia and it was a great experience. My friend and I made a game that was very pretty and fun but wasn't obviously monetizable beyond ads. I put it up on Apptopia and Jonathan hustled his ass off and got me $2500 for the app, which was great considering it was a side project and I wanted to pass it on to someone with more time.

Post by pbreit » Tue, Feb 12, 2013, 7:38 PM UTC

Post by colkassad » Tue, Feb 12, 2013, 8:06 PM UTC

habosa wrote: post #5

drivingmenuts wrote: post #2

I 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…

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.

Post by schiffern » Tue, Feb 12, 2013, 8:27 PM UTC

gerryp wrote: post #15

eric_bullington wrote: post #14

I wasn't previously aware of apptopia -- looks very cool and I'm surprised I haven't heard of it before. There's always an interesting outlier project that escapes our notice, right? But I'm a little confused about this situation. Who was listing this app? (i.e., who originally coded the app?) Was he/she consulted about the situation? Perhaps I'm not yet understanding how Apptopia works, but I'm surprised you took th…

Hey Eric, So we brokered this app acquisition. The seller (original coder of the app) sold the ownership to this buyer. After paying for and receiving the app, this buyer initiated a wrongful chargeback (we paid out the seller already, so we took the hit as the broker and escrow provider). So in essence, since he "returned" the app to us, we now own it, and therefore, the app developer community now owns it. Does tha…

Post by gerryp » Tue, Feb 12, 2013, 9:55 PM UTC

danielhunt wrote: post #21

While 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…