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Comment by shimfish

2 days ago

As an app developer, I'm looking forward to having to answer all the emails asking for me to transfer their purchases to Google Play.

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axus  2 days ago

Do free promotions (https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answ...) still work ? And how would you even validate the emails against Amazon Appstore purchases?

  • dylan604  2 days ago

    I'd assume they would have a record of the user in their database. How else would they earn money from the data harvesting their app is a cover for? For the small number of apps that aren't solely data harvesting, surely they still have records of their users in a database as well? This question almost reads as if you're assuming the only record of an app would be through the store and not by the app developers themselves. I would find that truly shocking and quite comically sad if true.

    It seems like it would be trivial for a user to login to the app acquired from a different store to be able to display a "welcome back" or even something along the lines of a "restore purchases" type of thing.

    This can't be reinventing the wheel kind of a thing.

    • scripturial  2 days ago

      In google play the purchaser information is mostly privatized and hidden from the developer. I assume Amazon is the same.

      The only way a developer would know a person is an existing user is if they have a user sign up process inside the app itself.

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