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2009-11-20 , 01:45
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Originally Posted by xmob View Post
I can see, in the near future, an alternative (for profit) application store for maemo apps appearing.

Developer signs up (easily, free).
Users buy apps (from web, on device, wherever).
Developers get x%, app store gets 100-x%.
I'd really like to see something like Magnatune, where paying is encouraged but the user chooses the price.

Maybe the user could choose the price after they've had the app for a short time, so they know better if they really appreciate it or not. That would have to be an active process, where the user is prompted after that time, rather than a passive one which expects the user to remember and be bothered.

That might work even when the developer chooses to include source - i.e. proper commercial open source - because the user is directed to make an active decision about whether and how much to pay, even though they are free to decide "none", or copy the program from elsewhere.

What do you think?
 

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