[SailfishDevel] Jolla Harbour and Jolla Store

[Michal Jerz]

Andrey Kozhevnikov wrote:

> And please tell about possible ways for paying for application 
> and developer ways to receive funds

Right. Will the store support in-app purchase? Will it support 
subscriptions? Will there be any in-app advertising system/network offered 
by Jolla, so that in-app ads can be used in free/Lite applications?


And also, equally important...

what kind of software protection/activation/registration will be supported 
(or at least ALLOWED) by the store. For example, will the store (if chosen 
so by the publisher) automatically generate registration/activation keys 
based on a phrase provided for an application by the publisher; or will the 
store support pre-generated list of registration keys uploaded by the 
developer? Or something else.

Or if no registration/activation will be supported by the store itself, will 
Jolla be providing publishers with customer phone's IMEI number so that IMEI 
based activation/registration can be included in the application and handled 
by the developer himself?

The Nokia store hasn't been supporting ANY kind of software protection, and 
actually (by not providing publishers with ANY customer data) it's been 
*preventing* it...   Without knowing customer's IMEI number, or even just 
email address, it is impossible to have any sort of activation/registration. 
 Anyone can contact the publisher and say that he purchased his application 
from the Nokia store, and it is not possible to verify it in any way.  And 
without any sort of software protection, an application purchased from the 
store can be then instantly uploaded to a warez or file sharing site and 
distributed without any limits.


Apologies for so many questions and suggestions right at start, but as the 
Nokia store example shows us, things that were omitted at the beginning 
never came...  And as Sailfish OS (at least initially) will be a small 
'ecosystem', the more important it is to provide (or at least ALLOW) any 
sort of software protection. If on Android or iOS 80% of copies of an 
application are pirate copies, the remaining 20% still account for thousands 
of copies sold. Whereas on a small platform like Sailfish same percentage 
(80%) of pirate copies will result in the remaining 20% accounting for... A 
HANDFUL of sales, rendering development of commercial applications 
completely unprofitable. That's why offering/allowing any kind of protection 
is very important, not only for developers but also for the platform's 
growth.

Implementing activation or other things mentioned above takes some time, so 
it would be great if we could know these things as soon as possible.

Michal