![]() I'm sure many people would have gladly paid for some of these features - some of them are pretty nice. Or they could have chosen to operate on an upfront payment basis, charging for premium features through the payment options made available to them. I'm sure their generosity would have been blessed. They could have decided to truly operate on a donation basis: to make the whole thing free and accept donations without requiring any. They chose instead to lie about it, to call what is undeniably a payment a donation - to spiritualize something that did not need to be spiritualized. It is absolutely appropriate to ask for payment for the wonderful work they've done. Personally, I fault the developers 110%, and this is the reason: And its that same principle which applies to using a person's platform for hosting your stuff on it. Now, I don't know what other software you use, but when you installed them, you click on the " I Agree thingy," which laid out the conditions of use of their product - you know that EULA (End User License Agreement). With that said, if one wants to use such a service, you gotta play according to the rules set in their terms. In having said that, I'm not defending Google. The issue with Riversoft was they didn't play according to the rules and bucked them. The problem with your argument is that there are other Bible Apps on Google Play which don't seem to have an issue, as they play to the rules which Google has place in their terms of service. It absolutely updates automatically and does so from within it's own app. What's more, I use a completely de-googled Android device and have side loaded MySword from their website. ![]() Yes, they host plenty of "free" apps as mentioned, but with Google ads and GSM features baked into them. I fault Google far more in greed in this case, and sure, I just don't trust or like them, but it's clear what they're about here. MySword developers have a very generous free version, any additional features are completely unnecessary for the app to fully function.Īsking for donations for additional, non-critical and unnecessary features is beyond appropriate. In conclusion, its extremely fortunate for the developers of MySword that Google hasn't taken legal action against them and sued them. So, when it comes to Google having removed MySword from Play Store - I would have done the same thing. Another way you can call it, is nothing more than theft. If one is going to use a service to promote one's product, and not pay for that service, but through guise, pretending that what one is offering is "free," but in reality holds a hidden cost to it, such as even that thing called "donations" to where one who makes that payment will get something more, is, in reality, scamming the host of what he/she is legally and rightfully due. And also, there are free apps hosted on Play Store which contains no adds at all - so as to how they make money from them, well would be like scratching at the bottom of the proverbial barrel. About the only way they do get to make money is through advertisements running on those apps. Is of itself, not very factual or just partially factual simply because Google hosts an extremely large number of free apps on Play Store of which they receive no money from them. While I agree in part that greed is part of the picture, could it also be greed on Google's part? Maybe they won't have it available because they cannot get their hands on some of the money. That said, for them to do that, from their perspective, they wouldn't be making as much money as what they would from their purported "donation" type scheme. If users want to be generous they can inquire on their support site. This way you get hosting and advertising of your product and the assurance as a user that it has been checked as virus free. Offer just one version of the software on Play Store for lifetime at the cost of $10. The solution for the MySword developers is really simple. ![]()
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