mobile app stores - personal v. corporate customers

[William Prothero]

Mark:
This sounds like something I’ve been considering too. In my case, it’s an educational app. I have a basic app with basic functionality. Then there could be a paid app that is pretty much the same, with enhanced functionality, that required a login to get advanced functionality. 

What I’m thinking about is a basic app that allows students to collect Earth data. The advanced app would have activities, quizzes, etc, that used that data and sent the results of student work to the teacher.

Best,
Bill
> On Mar 30, 2015, at 2:40 PM, Mark Wilcox <mark at sorcery-ltd.co.uk> wrote:
> 
>> Is it possible to have an app in both the Apple store and the Android store
>> which functions in this way.
> 
> Yes. Apple and Google are not trying to make money out of your B2B sales. An ideal solution might be to have a free app with some minimal functionality that lets you unlock the main content/functions with an IAP or a company login.
> 
> Alternatively it is possible to create two versions and go the paid download route for the consumer version. Then in the B2B version you can have almost everything behind a login in a free app. Apple prefer it if the app does something without a login. The only major restriction is that you can't link to a website where a company could sign up and pay for your app.
> 
> Hope that helps,
> Mark
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On 29 Mar 2015, at 00:33, Bernard Devlin <bdrunrev at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I haven an idea for an app which would function in 2 different ways.
>> 
>> 1. users pay to download the app, and the app writes no data back to a
>> server
>> 
>> 2. companies would pay to provide the app free to their clients/staff, and
>> data would be transferred between the company and the end user (the end
>> user does not pay to download the app)
>> 
>> Is it possible to have an app in both the Apple store and the Android store
>> which functions in this way.
>> 
>> In the 2nd situation, the company would pay a fixed fee for the provision
>> of the app to their end users.  Somehow the Apple/Android stores are going
>> to want payment for this situation (which is not the "pay per deployment"
>> model).
>> 
>> I'd be grateful if anyone has any ideas about how such things work.
>> 
>> Regards
>> Bernard
>> _______________________________________________
>> use-livecode mailing list
>> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com
>> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:
>> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
> _______________________________________________
> use-livecode mailing list
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com
> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:
> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode