[SailfishDevel] Is support for commercial apps a TABOO subject?

[Artem Marchenko]

Hi there

> In the mean time, you have time to get your apps ready, tested and
polished. Also,
> let us know what additional APIs you need for your Harbour app so that by
the time
> payments are available, your app is ready to sail.

As for harbour-related APIs and functions, subscription-based and
try-before-you-buy would have been very nice [for me at least] as IMHO they
motivate developers for continuous app improvement.

I'd love to have platform support for something like WhatsApp is doing:
have free usage for a substantially long time (a month at least, maybe a
year), and then something like $1 or even $0.1 per half a year. That would
motivate for paying only for the actually useful apps (you tried app for a
long time and still use it) and for continuing development (if app doesn't
improve, user uninstalls and goes for another app).

Sure, how to implement it technically without touching user privacy too
much is a separate story (who will check whether user still has the app
installed/running?). One option could be to encourage implementing this via
in-app purchase of subscriptions (a'la iOS?) that could be verified
completely on device without contacting the home base except for the act of
purchase.

Cheers,
Artem.

On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 3:42 PM, Karl Granström <karl.granstrom at jolla.com>wrote:

> Ahoy!!!
>
> We see the payment support in store as a really important part of our
> developer offering. We are currently working to support payments in our
> Jolla Store and Harbour but there are a lot of things for us to do. Our
> current target is to provide you the monetizing possibility durign the 2nd
> half of  2014.
>
> In the mean time, you have time to get your apps ready, tested and
> polished. Also, let us know what additional APIs you need for your Harbour
> app so that by the time payments are available, your app is ready to sail.
>
> Br,
> Jolla Store team
>
>
>
> On 24 Apr 2014, at 14:34, Mohammed Hassan <mohammed.hassan at jollamobile.com>
> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 09:33:22AM +0200, tw_bolek wrote:
> > [...]
> >> So my question is: is this some kind of taboo subject, or something of
> as little importance that for over 4 months now no Jollan has said A WORD
> about it despite numerous requests?
> >>
> >> A couple of my friends already gave up after waiting so long for even
> just any information, and I must say that I'm slowly losing hope, too.  We
> all understand and are aware of the enormous job Jolla has been doing, so
> we're asking for just INFORMATION about the progress, even just if AT ALL
> there are any plans to do it in a foreseeable future, and if so then
> knowing even just as little as if it will take a month or half a year would
> be all we need...
> >
> > There will be support for commercial apps and those will have copy
> protection. This was
> > mentioned bt Rainisto long ago already.
> >
> > I cannot give more info nor can I give an ETA for that though :/
> >
> > Cheers,
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