[Adium-devl] Adium iPhone

[Chris Forsythe]

Raise funds how? Let's say for instance that adium-iphone sells 20,000  
copies, at 1.99, which is roughly 40,000 dollars. How would you  
suggest raising funds in a way that is comparable?

Chris

On Jan 22, 2009, at 10:10 PM, George Armah wrote:

> Good question ... and I just realized I don't have a compelling  
> answer for that ...
> Except for the reason that Adium users who are using the free  
> desktop app would most likely be expecting a free iPhone app.
>
> It would possibly be a better idea to raise funds for the project  
> rather than sell the iPhone app. It would garner user interest on  
> the one hand but might also set unreasonable expectations on the  
> other hand.
>
>
>
> Chris Forsythe wrote:
>> Why?
>>
>> On Jan 22, 2009, at 8:17 PM, George Armah wrote:
>>
>>> It should be free  :-(
>>>
>>>
>>> Colin Barrett wrote:
>>>> Let's not get too ahead of ourselves. We also should ask some  
>>>> Pidgin developers if they would be OK with us distributing Adium  
>>>> for iPhone as a paid app.
>>>>
>>>> It might also be nice to donate a portion of proceeds to the IM  
>>>> Freedom Foundation or to another source to help further the  
>>>> development of libpurple.
>>>>
>>>> Note that none of this is required at all, but would be nice.
>>>>
>>>> -Colin
>>>>
>>>> On Jan 22, 2009, at 5:30 PM, Ryan R. LaMothe wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I think equally as important is if this is going to be a free  
>>>>> app or a paid app.  If it is a paid app, how is the payment  
>>>>> structure going to exist?  In other words, who gets paid what  
>>>>> amount and when?  Will this be an official business account?  If  
>>>>> so, does Adium have an official business charter?  If not, do we  
>>>>> want to use any of the existing developers businesses to  
>>>>> register the account?  For example, I currently own my own S- 
>>>>> Corp and could sponsor this project according to Apple licensing  
>>>>> terms.  These are just some important points to keep on the back- 
>>>>> burner until a future date.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> -Ryan
>>>>>
>>>>> On Jan 22, 2009, at 8:24 PM, mm w wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> ok let's do concrete
>>>>>>
>>>>>> needs:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> - a prepaid apple adium account to invite users with a valid  
>>>>>> adc account
>>>>>>
>>>>>> - if we are 10 it's $10 per person, who wants to raise the money
>>>>>
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