I've been with androidpit for a good few months now. I don't have any problems or issues with them so far - they seem to have thought things through quite well and produced (imho) a decent competitor.
1. As Kostya mentioned above, they track the Market and mail you within an hour if you haven't uploaded to androidpitas well. 2. They allow PayPal which I get regularly asked for. 3. They work in all/many more countries which is also good. 4. They respond to emails quite promptly and helpfully. There may be a hint of a language barrier (the website appears to run from Germany), but nothing that would get in the way. 5. Their lvl wraps nicely around the google lvl so I simply have one paid app with both lvl's included and check market first then androidpit. (And my free app allows the user to click to upgrade and opens the market:// link if it works or the appcenter:// link for the androidpit market instead). 6. If you use the same package name as the one on the Market then everything just comes together. In the androidpit market client you then get all the Market description pulled over (so you just need to maintain it in one place) as well as access to all the Market comments. 7. For users that already have your app on their device, as soon as they install the androidpit market then it starts to track and notify them if there are updates, in the same way as the market client. I haven't jumped into the amazon pond yet as I've had previous issues with them, so I'm advising Kindle fire users to simply install the androidpit market and get my app from there. 8. In the purchase history, you can see the full name of each person and send them a mail (via androidpit so their email is not divulged). This was useful when I first got up and running with androidpit so I let the first handful of people know this was all new and to get back to me if there were any problems. There weren't anyway. I know the Android Market allows you something similar via checkout, but this just seems better and less clunky. 9. As mentioned, you can put your free apps on androidpit as well - I'm seeing 295 downloads in less than a week since I added my free app. I'm assuming this is an additional userbase that don't have access to the official Android Market...? 10. Following on, the androidpit does allow me to get my paid app onto non-Google-licensed devices such as the Folio, Rockchip tablets, etc. 11. An updated app on their website seems to take effect immediately. I've had mails from users who have had the Android Market tell them there was an upgrade, but when they clicked on it to upgrade it said it was still the old version and took an hour or so before they could download the upgrade properly. 12. Their Market client isn't as overly graphicy and bloaty as the Android Market. This may or may not be a good thing, but personally I like a Market that zips along and isn't busy downloading hundreds of images for film and book adverts that I will never, ever, click on.. :-) On the downside: 1. They will only credit you if you move more then a certain amount per month - something like $20. Anything less gets carried over to the next month. May be an issue if you have a low usage app...? 2. If you use PayPal then for some people (I don't know if it's new accounts, or something to do with user age or location), Paypal will charge a minimum of $5 and leave the rest as a credit on the user's PayPal account. I don't believe this is an issue with androidpit, just an issue to be aware of due to the use of Paypal. 3. Their statistics are not as colourful or pie-chart-able as the Market ones - just raw numbers of downloads/purchases. Would be nice to have versions/device models/etc. Though you could possibly scrape that info by linking through to each user's profile page on androidpit which lists their current device. 4. The Market comments in their appcenter/website do sometimes trail behind by more than several days. So personally, I'm happy with them. YMMV. HTH. On Jan 10, 6:16 pm, String <[email protected]> wrote: > Bump... I too am being solicited by AndroidPIT and am wondering if anyone > has experiences to share selling apps there. I've had mixed results with > alternative app stores, so I'm not dismissing this out of hand, but neither > am I ready to just jump right in. > > Thanks, > String -- 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
