Re: [free-software-melb] Follow-up and minutes from last night's meeting

In comparison, Google charge a once of $25 fee:

http://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=113468&topic=2365624&ctx=topic

More importantly, the Google fee is not required to run apps on an Android device, only to get them into the Google Play marketplace. If I have an APK for an app then nobody can ever take it away from me. It looks like on iOS that if the developer stops paying the yearly fee, the app essentially disappears from the iOS ecosystem (it doesn't get deleted from devices, but if you ever wanted to wipe or buy a new device, the app would be lost to you).