Developer Calls Amazon Appstore a 'Disaster'

An anonymous reader writes "The developer of the current #2 Top App on Android Market has written a very interesting article giving six reasons why they decided to pull their game from Amazon Appstore. From the article: 'If you are a small indie development team, or possibly even alone, don't bother with Amazon Appstore. Create a great app, publish it on Android Market, and provide great customer support. You will never succeed on Amazon Appstore without a big wallet, or at least an established reputation so that Amazon puts value behind their promises.'"

Comments

Re:He did ok... 72k worth of ok!

[Anonymous Coward]

No I didn't. Do you really think Amazon gives developers money every day? This campaign is run every day and ~100k download the daily free app. You really think Amazon sends out 72k to developers every day? Before the campaign was launched, I received an agreement to sign, an agreement that said revenue would be 0%.

Re:One very good point and a lot of bitching

[makomk]

After one angry mail his app got a sprecial promotion and he got 180,000 donwloads in a single day,

180,000 free downloads - which damaged his reputation because thanks to the lack of compatibility checks it didn't actually run on many downloaders' phones.

For me, there's a single good reason

[Centurix]

There is a single reason not to use the Amazon app store to publish your app:

1) Customers willing to pay money living outside of the US cannot purchase from the store. I can publish my app from Australia, but I cannot purchase my own app without some circumnavigation of their block.