Android Market to Offer 24-Hour Return Policy on Apps

[miketcool]

Two things here:
When I buy software at Best Buy, I dont get to return it in 24hours, ie. games and such...So why should you in the apple store get a refund if you dont like it?

Didn't you just answer your own question? If Best Buy isn't offering a money back guarantee, but Apple is, wouldn't you buy from Apple instead of Best Buy?

Also, being able to control how apps are downloaded and uninstalled, means that Apple can make the system work. Best Buy can't implement it, because you can make a copy and keep the game while returning the disk it came on.

Returns on digital downloads will push for higher quality applications, this is a good thing...

 

[miketcool]

Separate install and download? Get real...

Ok, I am going to help clarify what this process is like for all you iPhoners out there.

While Google works on a desktop sync suite for Android, you can download apps via Android Market.

Browse for an application; search, categories, etc. Not the best implimentation, but s-i-m-p-l-e. Find the app, expand the reviews and decide to buy.

Download. In the future this will use Google Checkout for paid apps.
Download icon shows up in the notifications bar, much like having the download window in Safari/Firefox/whatever. Continue browsing while the app downloads. Over 3G and Wifi, its almost instant.

Install or download more apps. This isn't like the iPhone, where you have to quit Market and open a separate app. It just runs in the background, and you can continue shopping, texting, whatever as it installs. This is usually a few seconds also.

Open, or do whatever you want until youre ready to open your new app.

It really is a very simple system. Downloads/installs/messages happen in the bar at the top while you continue doing whatever you want.

 

[northy014]

Surely Android's implementation of the Market is more difficult than the comparative one on Apple, due to the fact that they know in the future the Apps will have to be compatible with many different types of phones.

 

[Mastidon]

You can already pirate iPhone apps via crackulous.

You and I are able to do that but the average user is not. This return policy allows anybody to be a pirate.

 

[Mastidon]

That's not the case. Google has control over uninstalling. Google can remotely remove an app.

Yes but will they when you ask for a return? I doubt that very much.

 

[cublah]

Yeah hopefully there is a limit on the amount of times you can return an app.

Just buy it, return it before 24 hours and then buy it again and keep doing this....

So what's stopping someone buying an app and 'saying' he or she don't like it and getting a refund and keeping the App?

 

[question fear]

So what's stopping someone buying an app and 'saying' he or she don't like it and getting a refund and keeping the App?

There's probably a remote disable.