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From: "Erik Moeller"
<erik(a)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
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