I take it, then, that you are not an iPhone developer. Not sure which way I would go on this one. If your friend already has some iPhone experience, I assume he already has an iPhone developer account which you'll want to use. In which case it might be better to set up a contract where he uses his iPhone account and pays you a percentage of the sales he makes, in exchange for you handing him your code/images for him to start from. Because in that case it would really be him doing all the work and you're collecting royalties because you came up with the idea/original code. Assuming it's significant work because he'll need to recode everything from java to ObjectC for the iPhone, he's really duplicating all your work, minus the original idea and your images.
So I'd probably ask for him to pay YOU 30% or less. (I definitely wouldn't go below 10%.) Though, if you think your app is original enough or that your friend will settle for less, I'd ask maybe 50%, though keep in mind, he gets 30% deducted from the price of his app on the App Store, as well, to go to Apple. So you'd have to be clear on whether the payments (whether you to him or him to you) is a percentage of total profits or a percentage of the price of the app on the app store. And, although he is your friend, I'd write up a contract between the two of you. You never know in the future when there might be a scuffle because either one of you doesn't remember what was agreed, or one of you claims he never agreed to something. A contract preserves businesses and friendships. On Mar 30, 10:09 am, Hayden <[email protected]> wrote: > I am looking for advice on paying someone to port my app to the > iPhone. I have a friend with some iPhone experience, so I am > considering paying him with a percentage of sales for the port he > makes. Has anyone had experience with a similar situation? What would > be a decent % of sales to offer him, 30%? More? Less? > > Thanks! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
