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This is a part of the issue, knowing the rules but nonetheless not following them. And then — culturally unaware — thinking it's ok because nobody says anything.

Japanese on 恩 describes obligation (not necessarily with the negative connotation of the English word). Obligation to one's lord, to the emperor, one's parents, etc. I recommend Chrysanthemum and the sword by Ruth Benedict for a more detailed understanding of this very important, albeit fading, part of Japanese culture.

A. It's the same as Flying Knight, only the name changed. B. No it wasn't. The helicopter game is a clone as well. C. What's interesting to me is that google accused us of violating this policy: https://play.google.com/intl/en/about/developer-content-poli... which doesn't seem to fit. What would be more fitting is this one: http://developer.android.com/distribute/googleplay/policies/....

Hi gwillen, well, it seems like there are people tolerating it, otherwise SellAring wouldn't exist. Same for push notification networks like LeadBolt and Airpush. I totally understand that you're mad though, a cellphone is a very private device. Do you personally feel that the notification bar should be considered equally personal as the space before someone picks up?

Best regards Johannes

Thank all you guys for the great discussion!

Hi soup10,

I totally agree. My intentions were more research driven than by greediness. Please see my comment at the top for more details.

Best regards Johannes

I'm glad you like it. There's no ad free version available at the moment though.

madvertise only fills in some european countries. In case madvertise doesn't fill, I use AdMob. For madvertise I use a 30 seconds refresh rate, for AdMob 60 seconds. This explains the differences.

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A while ago, the madvertise SDK had a bug which resulted in ads not being scaled. This resulted in very small ads that were clicked by accident almost all the time. After a while, this bug was fixed. When looking at the conversion rate for my house ads, it was totally obvious that the non-accidental clicks resulted in a respectable conversion while the accidental clicks had almost no positive effect. I think the google AdSense for mobile do a good jobs here because the user has to click them twice before anything happens.

True. INSTALL_PACKAGES is a permission with protectionLevel=signatureOrSystem. All other applications can do is take the user to an install-Activity hosted by the OS. For my intention for installing SellAring, please see my answer above.

Hey, sure, I made considerations on how my users feel before integrating this kind of ads. I'm speaking about different monetization strategies on conferences and while the bad impression of notification push ads was proven by many apps, I wanted to check whether the reactions to SellAring were as bad (or, in other words, whether the notification bar is considered as personal as the empty auditive space before a call being accepted). They were and that's what I'm able to tell the other developers now based on a foundation of knowledge.

Yes, that's my experience too.

I'm Johannes, the Space Invaders guy. To make things clear right at the beginning: I love and support open source, not only because it's somehow making me money, but also because I think, as we are beings living in communities, openness and sharing are the ways. Before Mario published his book, he wrote a German tutorial on game development (which, same as the book, is great), that's where I have the code base from. I mentioned Mario in the app as well as in the Android Market description as well as on my blog and our website and left the game licensed under the GPL of course. There's not much more referencing I can do. I also once took the game off of the Android Market, but Mario told me to put it back on. Regarding the ads: The other ad network I use is madvertise. T me it's interesting that they appear to be more intrusive to you, since their banners actually are a lot smaller than those by AdMob. How come? I also use Heyzap which I also find a bit annoying, especially on small devices, which will be removed with the next update.

Personally, I really like quality apps and think on the long term, even if they are not financially successful, the gain is bigger with these apps than with apps that provide lower quality. However, also prank apps can be of good quality of course and in the end it's the user who is judging. There had been more or less successful fake iPhone apps on the Android Market almost since day one, but most of them don't exist anymore. That's also why I thought David's app would be removed fast, especially when the audience became bigger. This didn't happen so far, which surprises me a little. For David, I hope nothing like a lawsuit or removal will happen, but the possibility obviously will always exist.