Ugh. I'm sorry I didn't see your original post about it, Nathan. That would have at least saved me from the surprise.
Actually, we didn't have a buffer savings exactly. What we had was tax savings. We put 18% of every deposit into a savings account not to be touched until tax season. We operate under the assumption that we will have to send all of that to Uncle Sam. As it turned out, we not only got to keep that, but we're actually getting a small refund (3 kids and lots of expense deductions). That money is what what will keep us floating through Feb. It is now our vacation savings, so we'll have to replenish it when 3/2 comes around. (We have restarted tax savings for this year, and we won't have to dip into that.) The comment "Anyone who is that dependent on daily deposits should start saving their money now or perhaps find a temp job at their local food bank for the period they won't be seeing those pennies flowing into their account." from John Coryat is more than a little condescending. While I am not extremely dependent on daily deposits, I can certainly attest that I make more than "pennies" a day. I actually make more on sales from my one paid app than from my full time job. On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Nathan <[email protected]> wrote: > Now people notice? > > They actually came from Google Checkout. If you logged into your > Google Checkout account, it would make you accept these terms > eventually. The holding payments was in the fine print. > > I was the one who posted that discussion when I saw the new terms. The > response I got was that this is standard in the industry, which is > true. But it also seemed like noone was inconvenienced. I was told to > volunteer at soup kitchens or something like that. I thought that > meant that no one was making more than pennies from Android. I can see > now that the announcement was simply a little bit too low key. > > I don't have a day job. I actually sold stocks from my former day job > to cover this gap in income that I knew was coming. Having a savings > buffer is a good idea anyway, but I've burned through a lot in the > time it takes to develop an app and build up a customer base. > > Nathan > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
