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diff --git a/docs/html/about/marketplace.jd b/docs/html/about/marketplace.jd deleted file mode 100644 index 34f57a5..0000000 --- a/docs/html/about/marketplace.jd +++ /dev/null @@ -1,62 +0,0 @@ -page.title=Open Marketplace -walkthru=1 - -@jd:body - -<style> -blockquote { - color:#9933CC; -} -</style> - -<p>Android offers an open distribution model, not a walled garden. Once you’ve developed an -app for Android and want to distribute it, you have choice.</p> - -<p>Your final application is contained in an APK file that you can make available to users any -way you want. For example, you can upload it to your own web site to allow visitors to -install it onto their devices. More often, you’ll want to use a trusted -marketplace where users can discover and search for your apps.</p> - -<p>How you choose to distribute your app affects precisely how many users your app will reach. Which -distribution provider you choose also affects the kinds of services available to you as a publisher, -such as licensing and in-app billing APIs, user bug reports, installation analytics, marketing -services, and more.</p> - -<p>Among your choices is Google Play, the premier marketplace for selling and distributing apps -to Android users around the world. When you publish an app on Google Play, you reach hundreds of -millions of customers in over 130 countries.</p> - - -<h3>Your business, your customers</h3> - -<blockquote>Google Play makes your apps available to your customers -immediately</blockquote> - -<p>As an open marketplace, Google Play puts you in control of your business and makes it easy for -you to manage how you sell your products. You can publish whenever you want, as often as you want, -and to the exact set of customers you want.</p> - - -<h3>Visibility for your apps</h3> - -<p>Beyond growing your customer base, Google Play helps you build visibility and engagement across -your apps and brand. As your apps rise in popularity, Google Play gives you higher placement in -weekly "top" lists and offers promotional slots in curated collections. You can engage customers -using rich, colorful product pages that feature app screenshots, videos, and user reviews, as well -as cross-marketing links to your other products.</p> - -<h3>Flexible monetizing and distribution</h3> - -<blockquote class="right">You can distribute -your apps free or priced and you can sell in-app products for additional revenue</blockquote> - -<p>Google Play offers a choice of monetizing options to meet your business needs. You control the -pricing of your apps and in-app products—you can set and change prices at any time, even -individually in local currencies around the world. On purchase, Google Play handles transactions in -the buyer’s currency and makes payouts in your own currency.</p> - - -<p>After publishing, you can manage the distribution of your app. You can distribute broadly to all -markets and devices or focus on specific segments, devices, or ranges of hardware capabilities. -Google Play provides the tools for controlling distribution and ensures that your app is available -only to the users who you are targeting.</p> |