not only Handango rips off developers

read more here:

http://www.msmobiles.com/news.php/3801.html

:-(

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jcomeau_ictx
Sat Apr 30 02:01:33 CDT 2005

Geeze Louise -- if you don't like the deal, don't use them. Sell your
products from your own web page. Or Ebay. Or better yet, create a site
to compete with Handango and Motricity and everybody else, that gives a
fair shake to developers and a better deal to the customers, and wipe
those greedy scoundrels off the face of the cyberverse.

Greed is everywhere, it's the result of a 10000-year-old experiment
gone horribly wrong. Read Daniel Quinn's books, and let's start a new
ball rolling, this one doesn't have much more momentum.

Steve
Sat Apr 30 10:02:17 CDT 2005

It's a free market economy and the web is open to anyone anywhere in the
world. Set up your own shop and compete with them if you can. I'll bet you
can't. In case you hadn't noticed, mobile application sales is a pretty
small market and the cost of marketing and advertising to get customers to
the "door" is pretty steep. 35-40% distributor fees is not unusual at all in
any business really.

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ctacke/>
Sat Apr 30 18:06:30 CDT 2005

Evidently in his opinion Handango and others aren't allowed to make a
profit, pay their employees fair wages, give them benefits or improve their
services. There's a long track record of great companies that provide
useful products and services for free or nearly so...in bizarro world.

I agree. If it's so easy to market and sell at a lower cost than what they
provide, why doesn't everyone do it themselves? Why doesn't he start a
competing business and drive them into the ground?

-Chris


"Steve Maillet (eMVP)" <nospam1@EntelechyConsulting.com> wrote in message
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> It's a free market economy and the web is open to anyone anywhere in the
> world. Set up your own shop and compete with them if you can. I'll bet you
> can't. In case you hadn't noticed, mobile application sales is a pretty
> small market and the cost of marketing and advertising to get customers to
> the "door" is pretty steep. 35-40% distributor fees is not unusual at all
> in any business really.
>
> --
> Steve Maillet
> EmbeddedFusion
> www.EmbeddedFusion.com
> smaillet at EmbeddedFusion dot com
>
>