Thread: Amazon, NOT developers, to set App prices
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Old 01-17-2011, 02:41 PM   #11
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Originally Posted by leebase View Post
No, Amazon is guaranteeing the developers 20% of the MSRP. So, if a developer takes the time to develop an app that he wishes to price at $10, he is only guaranteed $2, not the $7 he is expecting.
Which conflicts with what I said... how? I never said they were guaranteeing 70%, just that they were guaranteeing an amount.

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Then, as Amazon decides to sell all the apps for $1 to buy up market share from the other Android markets, the developer will be left with a customer base that now expects all his apps to only sell for a dollar.
And if Amazon wants to lose $1 on each copy of the app, why shouldn't they be allowed to?
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