Discussion on Google Android group

I found some interesting discussions in the Andoid developer google group, and particularly on one question that I am still looking for the answer from google, "will be there any subscription based apps in the Market?"

Publish Paid App in both Handango and Google Android Market

Google: We need to know how paid app transactions will work!

Is the developer or Android Market selling the Apps?

Charging for upgrading from free to paid version with new features

Also, I found another unofficial android apps online store, which is similar to handango as in my previous post that offers subscription based payment. 

There are many developers, based on my research so far, who are waiting the official answer from Google on this subscription based payment method. I guess Google should not keep the developers, and watcher like me ;p, waiting for the answer. 

*Yosh.. preparing for tomorrow Tokyo trip to the Company, meet with the Man who is behind the Product I am watching :p .... wishing a great lunch and fruitful discussion :)

Subscription-based pricing apps in Handango Android market !?

I was surprised when finding this about the first unofficial Android market by Handango, who is already there online since October 2008 offering free and paid apps, even offering monthly/quarterly/yearly subsription-based pricing apps! It is very late to find about this though. 

I was then looking for some others references talking about this, some news reported #1 #2 

From those sources, however, Handango tends to rips off the user as well as the developers. Handango takes about 50% of the revenue, 25% to developers, another 25% either to developer or third business parter of Handango (if the apps are downloaded from such third party website. 

One thing that I am still curious is how Google reacted to such unofficial Android market. However I have not found any source talks about it in the internet. Google could lose some potential  revenues due to the competition from Handango. On another hand, I am also thinking maybe for a short term Google wants to see and use it as a marketing tool for the Android, until sometime when the official Android Market with paid and perhaps subscription-based pricing shows up how it goes.

Subscription-based Apps on the Android Market?

I found some discussion among developers in the Android Market Support Forum as follow. However, no formal reply from Google yet.

Subscription-oriented services seem to be a violation of the Market TOS

App with option subscription based services

Subscription based service - how to ? (an online game apps)

After reading the term and condition of pricing and payment of the Android Market, we could somehow analyze that only through the Market the money can flow. Still, we need clarification from Google directly. I will closely monitor those discussion update.

Anyway, I think we don't need to register as a member since the Android market Support Forum are available online.