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From: "Erik Moeller" erik@wikimedia.org
They are?
Perhaps I've missed something big...
(Oh: you said "user-friendly")
Yeah. In-app billing is a feature of the Android Market platform and described here: http://developer.android.com/guide/market/billing/billing_overview.html
Ahhhh. While I'm a fairly avid user, I'm not an android developer, and I hadn't run across that. Interesting.
Checkouts are managed by Google, so no need in this case to implement a whole payments backend. Of course that's what the 30% fee is charged for. The terms state that it's limited to "digital goods" which is the kind of clause that you could drive a truck through. Looks like some folks are using it for donations and "selling" thank you messages.
Heh.
If we do this, we'd want to have a direct line w/ Google to clarify that it's OK, and ideally persuade them to waive the fee out of their love for Wikipedia. :-)
That should be yourself, or someone like you, talking directly to Larry or Sergey; that's how that sort of thing comes about.
Cheers, -- jra