Re: [android-developers] are ads worth the effort?

You won't make any money from the ads, but it might be worth having them
to convince users to purchase a paid version.

Sincerely,

Brad Gies
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On 30/06/2011 1:38 PM, Spooky wrote:
> I'm about to release my first app, and would like some opinions
> about adding ads and a $2 donation to remove the
> ads...specifically, is it worth the effort (keeping in mind that
> I currently know exactly NOTHING about how to do this)....
>
> My app is a simple photo Gallery, showing, in this case, a set
> (one of two, assuming this one isn't a flop) of photos from
> Point Lobos State Preserve in California. In the app, I also
> provide information (via the menu button---and ONLY if the user
> CHOOSES to select the option to view that information) on where
> and how to order photo posters from this set.
>
> Here's the question: would adding ads, and a $2 donation to
> remove said ads, be likely to be worth the effort? Or, could
> doing so actually work against me by turning people away from
> the app?
>
> Any comments/suggestions would be greatly appreciated...even
> if only a simple "forget the ads" or "yeah, do the ads" response.
> :-)
>
> Thanks,
> --jim
>
> PS: If anyone wants to preview the photo set that will be in
> the app, it's online at jdgapps.com. The site will
> eventually serve for both my photography and support for
> Android apps...but it's currently only the former, and
> then currently only for this one photo set....
>
> --
> 73 DE N5IAL (/4) | DMR: So fsck was originally called
> spooky130u@gmail.com | something else.
> http://jdgapps.com/ | Q: What was it called?
> < Running FreeBSD 7.0> | DMR: Well, the second letter was different.
> ICBM/Hurricane | -- Dennis M. Ritchie, Usenix, June 1998.
> 30.44406N 86.59909W
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