Comments on: Day 3 Of Google’s 10 Days of 10 Cent Apps: ADWLauncher EX, Tetris, And More

By: Natanael L

Natanael L — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 21:43:00 +0000

I want a comparison of all the NON-standard NOT-icon-based launchers. Like SlideScreen and the WP7 imitations, but I want others too. What launchers are there that aren’t just icons with a twist?

By: Natanael L

Natanael L — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 21:41:00 +0000

I think it’s CTRL+R on some browsers, but that’s just for the cache and not cookies.

By: Natanael L

Natanael L — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 21:39:00 +0000

It’s a bit interesting how the taxes vary between apps. Some have none (devs from some non-EU foreign countries?), some have Swedish taxes (such as an app I know is from a swedish dev), some varies a bit (apps from EU countries?).

I’ve bought a few apps for the first time now considering the low prices. Seriously, ~10 cents (to be precise, 1 SEK here, up to 1,25 with taxes) is hard to say no to.

By: TheAndroid1

TheAndroid1 — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 01:57:00 +0000

I would like to point you to this article:
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/the-cost-of-being-amazons-free-app-of-the-day-08032011.html

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 22:41:00 +0000

i don’t understand why you uninstalled it (maybe you wanted the purchase associated with your account but didn’t actually need the app, as i do with free apps on amazon) but that is generally how it works (the uninstalling being a trigger for a refund, for why would you give it back/throw it away if you wanted it; the not being able to re-buy is a different thing entirely)

By: Gunther

Gunther — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 19:59:00 +0000

Look at Anderweb, dev for ADW Launcher EX. He’s already made an ICS update that makes my phone feel snappier. Glad I never jumped on the Launcher Pro bandwagon of abandonment.

By: Gunther

Gunther — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 19:57:00 +0000

Relax man. Check the market later today, and try to re-purchase the app. This happened to me yesterday, and a few hours later, I was able to re-purchased the app I accidentally refunded.

By: Gunther

Gunther — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 19:55:00 +0000

No they do not. Amazon does not pay devs anything when they place their app as the free app of the day. The dev is supposed to make money thanks to being placed in the top 10 apps for a couple of days after the free promotion but they do not get paid for the free app promotion.

By: DroidzFX

DroidzFX — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 19:49:00 +0000

The devs still get a % of money on Free day. Amazon pays them.

By: TheCleaner

TheCleaner — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 19:46:00 +0000

Just FYI, for those of us caught up in the whole “cancelled” issues. Sent a request to the folks at Paper Camera to inquire, especially since the price went back up to $1.99 and got this back:

“We’d like to clarify what happened yesterday:Google started a HUGE promotion of 10 apps at $0.10 each. Their servers were overloaded so many orders got stuck

Now
we want to honour every single order that got stuck in this madness,
there are some technical issues, here the scenario that we see:

1)
If you decided to cancel your order we cannot (apparently) re-instate
it, we’ll have to speak with google on how to do it, their default tools
don’t allow for this to happen, so it might take a while to coordinate
this with them.
2) If your order is still pending, and it’s
“chargable” we’d like to complete the order and give your money back, so
effectively you won’t be charged anything, again, we’ll need to see how
to do this within the google’s system.
3) If your order got
caught in that timeframe in which it went from $0.10 to $1.99 it’s even
trickier, cos it took the caches few hours to update all the prices, but
if you haven’t cancelled your order, we can apply point 1) or 2)
4)
We might think that Paper Camera we’ll be part again of the $0.10
campaign so if your order was cancelled you could try again in few days,
but we know this is not optimal :/

So in a
nutshell we’d like to give everyone caught into this a free copy, it
will just take some time, maybe a couple of days, to coordinate this
technical change with Google.
Please bear with us, we have
allocated all our resources to fix this problem as soon as we can, and
we 100% understand that is not your fault, so we are on your side 100%
on this!”Now, that’s just from that app..YMMV.

By: Dana S.

Dana S. — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 19:45:00 +0000

Ugh tell me about it. Had to disable 4G cause I live on the fringe of 4G and it plays havok with my data. UGH!!

By: Chase Johnson

Chase Johnson — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 19:22:00 +0000

oh just called their “support” about it and its a “feature” if you uninstall something within 15 minutes it automatically refunds it, and if it doesnt actually show CANCELLED on the purchase before the day is over then i cant repurchase it at $0.10…what a load of crock since i didnt even want the refund. and then the guy says “sorry for the inconvenience.”

By: Aj522

Aj522 — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 19:21:00 +0000

Same thing here. Lp+ started to force close and make my phone slow when exiting an app, so I started looking for other home replacements.

By: Chase Johnson

Chase Johnson — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 19:12:00 +0000

TIP: Dont uninstall anything you just bought within the refund time, it automatically refunds it even if you didnt ask it to.

I just lost ADW because of this crap and now it wont let me rebuy it…how stupid.

By: Raven

Raven — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 19:11:00 +0000

Hmm, I think that happened to me too then. Everything I bought from the web that I sent to my tablet and had already gotten from Amazon FAOTD (but wanted to replace from the real market) got canceled and refunded.