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Back when i had my iphone, they would give out paid apps for free like once a day. Is there anything similar to that for windows phone 7. i could use some nice apps
Markolic said:
Back when i had my iphone, they would give out paid apps for free like once a day. Is there anything similar to that for windows phone 7. i could use some nice apps
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They offer "Deal of the Week" apps but it's deff not free.
When the marketplace grows larger...
almost every app has a free trial, many offer full function and just post an ad banner
ok , i can deal with ads no problem . Which apps have ads for the full version?
I have an LG Quantum Optimus from Bell Canada. There's an LG APP store Category that shows up in the marketplace with apps for us to download an install that are LG developed or are paid apps being offered to LG users as a free download. Their way of saying thanks to their customers. About half are swapped out with new ones once a month or something.
I would love this.. I am unable to buy apps for my phone because my region is unsupported. I'm an avid apps buyer (I've probably bought more than 100 euro in apps on my iPhone) and the app buyer in me is suffering.
Markolic said:
Back when i had my iphone, they would give out paid apps for free like once a day. Is there anything similar to that for windows phone 7. i could use some nice apps
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wow, just wow. no wonder all the apps are going ad supported. I'd much rather pay 5 bucks for an app then be hammered with ads....
Xylias said:
I would love this.. I am unable to buy apps for my phone because my region is unsupported. I'm an avid apps buyer (I've probably bought more than 100 euro in apps on my iPhone) and the app buyer in me is suffering.
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I thought there was a way for you to get around that by using a proxy server on your home computer for zune?
Boys and girls, it looks like the android market's having a clearance sale. Open the market on your phone. At the very top should be an ad for 10c apps. Got a bunch myself. Don't forget to clear your cache if you don't see the deals.....or just search for each one individually.
Today's deals are:
SoundHound
Asphalt 6
Minecraft
Swiftkey X
Endomondo Sports Tracker Pro
Great Little War Game
SketchBook Mobile
Color & Draw for kids
Paper Camera
Fieldrunners HD
Haha darn you, I was gonna post, pretty awesome for google!
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Thanks downloaded a bunch.
Bumpidy bump.
Forgot to include Field Runners HD in the list. Original post updated.
Now all we need is titanium backup, uloops pro and root explorer and Im gravy.
If Google's gonna keep this up, they'll COMPLETELY win back any Market customers they might have lost to Amazon.
Nice move, Google:
"Instead of 1 free app, wouldn't you rather choose from a dozen apps that only cost a dime?"
Um...
Yes.
I love how sometimes it's the simplest ideas that work.
Got 5 new apps for $.50 and they look like pretty decent time wasters. Very nice.
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can anyone help me i tried to download Swift key but after purchase i accidentally clicked refund and now it wont let me install because it says it has to be purchased
I like the playerpro sooo much but its too pricey, they could add that to the sale. Asphalt on the other hand is a GREAT DEAL, HD game from gameloft for 10c OMG.
To celebrate this milestone, we partnered with some of the Android developers who contributed to this milestone to make a bunch of great Android apps available at an amazing price. Starting today for the next 10 days, we’ll have a new set of awesome apps available each day for only 10 cents each.
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I was playing around with Paper Camera today. Holy crap that's such a cool app. How did I not know about it?
There are some good apps on there. That Sketchbook app isn't cheap either. I had to grab most of the ones I didn't already have. Thanks OP!
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Oooh. Minecraft.
Thank you so much, never would have looked! Ended up getting 5 applications.
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Ran across this sale by accident.
Anyway, it looks like they are going to have 10 apps for $.10 for ten days.
Pretty cool.
Also, it looks like some of these apps were also offered as free from Amazon. I almost got Paper Camera and Sketchbook Mobile again until I checked my Amazon apps list. That's $.20 saved for 2 more apps tomorrow
Amazon drm sucks. So I just bought paper camera for 10 cents
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From the looks of the picture about the 10 cent apps fruit ninja will be on sale soon. Anyone have any clue at what else?
mazook98 said:
If Google's gonna keep this up, they'll COMPLETELY win back any Market customers they might have lost to Amazon.
Nice move, Google:
"Instead of 1 free app, wouldn't you rather choose from a dozen apps that only cost a dime?"
Um...
Yes.
I love how sometimes it's the simplest ideas that work.
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I agree, this is genius marketing, a total win. It will keep me checking back often. And ADW EX is gonna be one of them one day
Potentially 100 apps for $10, sign me up.
flick golf, fruit ninja, beautiful widgets, christmas hd, AirSync by doubleTwist, reckless racing, star chart, NFL Rivals, Read it later pro... are all 10 c now...
so far i can find only these 9 apps...
Is it just me or do most of these say "Not compatible with your device."?
Just found a whole bunch of apps on sale on Google play. Big reductions for Dead Space and mSecure - Password Manager.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/collection/promotion_2012_03_06_AppsFavorites?start=0&num=24
I went for the flick golf. Worth 20p of anyone's money, wasn't keen on the others.
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Rich
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Osmos HD, really addictive!
Flick golf is definitely worth it. Quell Reflect is today's app for 25 cents and it is also totally worth it. Bought world of good too.
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rndmnss said:
Just found a whole bunch of apps on sale on Google play. Big reductions for Dead Space and mSecure - Password Manager.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/collection/promotion_2012_03_06_AppsFavorites?start=0&num=24
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Dead space is for free in Samsung store..
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As usual, the market crashes probably because Im from Serbia. Its ridiculous that I have to use Market Unlocker to legitimately purchase an app.
Many of those where on sale for 10p in the last promotion .
jje
Manitax said:
Dead space is for free in Samsung store..
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ya , is true!!
BTW Modern Combat 3 is 'now' on the £0.49p sale!
Asphalt 6
Need for speed
Dead space
All 3 are great deals & worth it, but as mentioned - those are free on Samsung apps
MC3 was free for a limited time too, but suddenly stopped working for me & everyone else, I hope the Google play version works
mixailo said:
As usual, the market crashes probably because Im from Serbia. Its ridiculous that I have to use Market Unlocker to legitimately purchase an app.
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yep..its a little known fact that google really do dislike people from serbia..
The dude abides....
To those that didn't know, Liquid Daffodil is giving all their apps away for free until the launch of the Surface, so if you don't have them already it would be a good time to go check them out!:good:
http://majorgeeks.com/story.php?id=38037
All adblocking apps have been removed officially by Google.
I'm honestly surprised that it didn't happen sooner. Ad revenue taken from developers causes developers to cease development of apps because they aren't making any money at all. Let's face it, most of us don't buy apps. I get ad supported apps and Amazon's free app of the day. I have bought maybe 5 apps since I got the Hero when it came out...
^^ agreed ^^ it's their app their choice. You're choice to use it or not. Sucks but the way it is.
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That does suck. That was the biggest reason I rooted half of my phones...:crying:
I buy most of the apps I use. But it's just a hosts file.
Like most others here, if I don't want ads I buy the app. Devs survive on ad revenue with their free apps. I'm not trying to step on any toes, I'm no saint either, but it's not the least bit surprising that a company who gets a lot of it's money through ad revenue removed ad-blocking apps from it's marketplace. Couple bucks gets you an ad free app usually and keeps food on the dev's tables.
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TJBunch1228 said:
Like most others here, if I don't want ads I buy the app. Devs survive on ad revenue with their free apps. I'm not trying to step on any toes, I'm no saint either, but it's not the least bit surprising that a company who gets a lot of it's money through ad revenue removed ad-blocking apps from it's marketplace. Couple bucks gets you an ad free app usually and keeps food on the dev's tables.
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I usually buy the paid apps as well, but there are free apps that don't have the option to pay to remove ads. That's where my adaway comes in. Anyway I'm sure you'll be able to find these apps on the Internet so no reason to worry
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If it's gonna make more devs, company create more apps/games for the android market then why not. I think little by little they will try to emulate the apple store with limitations and more restrictions . but like dude above me said just get the free app elsewhere, kinda the same deal with flash no biggie.
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I support apps that are worth the money, like ROM ToolBox, Carbon Backup, Nova (and not all of these even have ads) but some free ads have no pro alternatives. I'm pro for developers making money...but if a user wants to block ads, that's their choice to do so on their OPEN-SOURCE OS lol. It's not a huge problem for people like us who can simply just load the .apk up or insert a modified hostfiles..but it looks if it was an "Appleish" move and that's the main reason I'm disappointed. If anyone gets what I mean by that. Regardless, since this had to happen, hopefully the developers make more money through ads and better apps can be developed and funded for? (Just a positive insight)
TL;DR : Google shouldn't have removed apps that didn't infringe on copyrights, but some developers still offer their apps unofficially thankfully. And we should now see devs being supported more!
Yeah I know what you mean, it's open source but do you expect to be so open the more successful android becomes. That's why Google wants to get rid of removable batteries and sd cards, they essentially want to control more of what you can do with a phone. people love android because you have options that's why it's so successful unlike apple so who knows what will happen in the future.
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I also buy the apps I really like. If i use that app on occasion then i dont mind the ads, as long as they are the banners at the bottom or something, and dont just pop up in full screen when im trying to do something. Those apps that do that, i usually delete and just find an alternative app.
Some ads are intrusive especially the ones that spam your status bar with notifications about making your junk bigger. Not all apps have donate versions either as others have mentioned.
I don't know why this is upsetting it's not like ad blocking apps are going away... remember on Android we can install apps not in the play store
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md1008 said:
Some ads are intrusive especially the ones that spam your status bar with notifications about making your junk bigger. Not all apps have donate versions either as others have mentioned.
I don't know why this is upsetting it's not like ad blocking apps are going away... remember on Android we can install apps not in the play store
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Indeed. It just feels as if Google is going towards Apples iron fist way of running things. No external sd card in the Nexus 4 and no removable battery as mentioned above? Apple phones also fill that criteria. Only time will tell to see if they become truly brazen.
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elflip88 said:
I usually buy the paid apps as well, but there are free apps that don't have the option to pay to remove ads. That's where my adaway comes in. Anyway I'm sure you'll be able to find these apps on the Internet so no reason to worry
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Exactly my reason. If an app is worthy I have no problem shelling out a few bucks for it. It's just the occasional free apps that just straight up comes with ads. No paid versions.
Well i have bought 97% of my apps so for me it's no big deal what i don't like is that my payed apps come with ingame purchase.
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I think the move sucks but honestly I'm not surprised
I assume most of the apps that got pulled are going to be online pretty soon.
http://adblockplus.org/en/android-about
I personally never removed ads anyways. The devs put a lot of time and effort into these and if I'm too cheap to pay for it, I can deal with the ads.
BTW 95% of my apps have been purchased if they have a pro/paid version.
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If I can't afford the paid version (still haven't gotten around to justifying some of them to myself) then letting them get money from someone else is the least I can do.
daxecutioner24 said:
Yeah I know what you mean, it's open source but do you expect to be so open the more successful android becomes. That's why Google wants to get rid of removable batteries and sd cards, they essentially want to control more of what you can do with a phone. people love android because you have options that's why it's so successful unlike apple so who knows what will happen in the future.
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I don't think it's really about that kind of control. The battery issue is about cost (and I'd guess has a lot to do with the manufacturer they're working with and what they have available that they'll work with), and the sd card issue is about Google trying to push people to use Cloud services (some parts business and some parts probably genuinely thinking it's a good idea) and a dash of them not having a clue (I love Google, but the idea that the external sd is "confusing" to users is just silly - my mom didn't know hers existed until I told her - it didn't "confuse" her, it was just a non-issue).
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If I can't afford the paid version (still haven't gotten around to justifying some of them to myself) then letting them get money from someone else is the least I can do.
I don't think it's really about that kind of control. The battery issue is about cost (and I'd guess has a lot to do with the manufacturer they're working with and what they have available that they'll work with), and the sd card issue is about Google trying to push people to use Cloud services (some parts business and some parts probably genuinely thinking it's a good idea) and a dash of them not having a clue (I love Google, but the idea that the external sd is "confusing" to users is just silly - my mom didn't know hers existed until I told her - it didn't "confuse" her, it was just a non-issue).
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Once Google has a windows and Mac app like iTunes then they could do this cloud service crap, it's not time yet. They are always going to give a lame excuse but I'm happy not all manufacturers are carrying along.
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