Thread: Ovi Store? Seriously...
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fatalsaint is offline fatalsaint
2010-08-12 , 14:40
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#46
Originally Posted by fms View Post
I do not see a problem there. People sold their apps for ages, long before Apple's AppStore appeared. You set up a deal with a credit card processing company (like eSellerate) and start selling unlock keys. You app is still available from Extras-Testing Non-Free. True, there is no sane way it can ever migrate to proper Extras, but pretty much everyone has Extras-Testing enabled nowadays.
Understood but it's more work on the developer.

On the one hand: There's supposedly a store they can upload their closed source app and users can't even download it without first paying.

On the other hand: There's a repository where users can download their app and the developer themselves have to code in a special way to handle keys.

See which one is easier?

Don't get me wrong.. I don't pay for software anyway.. so I'm certainly not a user of the software I'm talking about.. I only deal with Open Source. I am just saying I can see their frustration... it's just a Non-issue for me.
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