Comments on: Google Play Announces Free Trials For In-App Subscription Services

By: Riz Virani

Riz Virani — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 16:27:00 +0000

What about program where all you need is 15 minutes to do what you need to do, and then you could return and not lose any of your money.

By: PhilosophicMumboJumbo

PhilosophicMumboJumbo — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 14:40:00 +0000

While you may be going “backwards”, you’ll still end up in the same place…unless it happens to be a One-Way street.

By: a.youth.in.Asia

a.youth.in.Asia — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 14:26:00 +0000

This is going to make Google play just that much sweeter

By: Thomas Tubergen

Thomas Tubergen — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 13:31:00 +0000

you might want to rethink that logic. you’re now going backwards.

By: PhilosophicMumboJumbo

PhilosophicMumboJumbo — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 13:01:00 +0000

“But two wrongs will never make a right…”, maybe, but two lefts will!

By: michael arazan

michael arazan — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 07:58:00 +0000

I wanted to buy magazines, but popular mechanics & science have nothing but 1 stars, or wired too.

By: michael arazan

michael arazan — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 07:57:00 +0000

Welcome to capitalism!

By: SolipsisticPsychologist

SolipsisticPsychologist — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 07:02:00 +0000

Well, hopefully everyone else isn’t shady like you. I feel like getting back at all of these criminal game developers that turn once paid games into freemium trash, thus robbing the “early adopters”, or they sell a paid game and have the audacity to include rigged, freemium-esque IAP sh!t in it, and go out of their way to not mention this in the game description. It fills me with vitriolic rage, on a daily basis. But two wrongs will never make a right, and the world would be a much better place if everyone followed “The Golden Rule”.

By: SolipsisticPsychologist

SolipsisticPsychologist — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 06:54:00 +0000

Are you nuts? The devs don’t need any other revenue stream alternatives, the devs got enough when they whined and got the reasonable 24 hour refund window, whittled down to a paltry 15 minutes! I’m sure just like IAP, shady developers will find some way to rip off the customer with the trial period. I don’t know how just yet, but I’d be willing to put a serious amount of money on that wager. It’s been a long time since Google released anything on the Market, i think, that benefit the customer, as opposed to giving corrupt companies, more ways to rip us off. All I am seeing, is them taking away features. My biggest fear is that Google will actually take away the 15 minute refund, despite it being useless most of the especially with large downloads. But, the moment they do that, well, the Market will be no different, or better than the retarded Apple App store.

Plus, it’s just truly asinine and ridiculous, how they handled the refund time frame. You go from one full day, to 15 minutes! Who the hell is doing math at Google? Wouldn’t a better compromise between the two times be, 10 or 12 hours? If you don’t want to have 24 hour refunds in your store, well, that is fine, do not offer it. But don’t be a tool, and take it away and then knock it down to a time that a good portion of apps, take longer to download than that time. So many spineless, crooked things go in business. Plus, what’s to stop piece of crap developers, from padding their app with extra content, just so it takes forever to download, thus leaving no possible chance for a refund? It’s pure B.S., and I am so sick and tired of companies I do business with, revoking features after the fact. There are going to be a lot of full seats in Hell I’m thinking. No ethics, morals, values or decency, anymore in business.

By: Tuan Dang

Tuan Dang — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 04:48:00 +0000

i did it with 2 magazines already. good for consumers but bad for the publisher since i read 2 magazines for free and canceled right away. the magazines still stay on your device untill the trial is over though.

By: Knlegend1

Knlegend1 — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 00:55:00 +0000

Does this count with magazines like Game Informer?

By: quiklives

quiklives — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 00:15:00 +0000

Now that the return window is down to 15 minutes, I’m glad that Google is working to find other ways to offer a revenue stream to the devs and still give users a chance to find out if something works for them.

By: TheAndroid1

TheAndroid1 — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 22:53:00 +0000

And you thought that the In App purchases for Gameloft Games were bad.