Sharing Apps between two accounts

[hopmedic]

I got a 920 and gave my lumia 900 to my wife. I made my Microsoft Account the #1 account on her phone. I have it sync nothing at all in the settings menu. That way she can use our music subscription and any apps I have purchased.

I wish they would figure out family accounts for Xbox Music. We have 0 issue purchasing double of apps we use, but like **** we shouldn't have access to music if it is in my licensing (which it is based on devices).

And you have a couple of $100 (on contract) phones, with a couple of what? $80? $90? contracts? And yet you justify stealing a few $2 apps.

 

[jjmurphy]

And you have a couple of $100 (on contract) phones, with a couple of what? $80? $90? contracts? And yet you justify stealing a few $2 apps.

I can smell your sadness from here. Everyone likes people who are holier than thou!

 

[hopmedic]

I can smell your sadness from here. Everyone likes people who are holier than thou!

I'm not sad at all. I'm sick. It makes me want to vomit that someone will give their hundreds to the big companies like ATT, Nokia, Microsoft, and then justify stealing $2 from the little indie developer. I made $22.57 from my apps last month, but you wouldn't have a problem making that $20.57, I'm sure - or even $0.57. I'll bet you were all for (or even participated) those pukes who camped in the park with their iPhones, iPads, and such, claiming to be against the 1%, too.

You're a thief. Nothing less. And I'm not holier than anyone. I need Jesus to get me to Heaven, just as much as you do.

 

[SnailUK]

I wish they would figure out family accounts).

There has to be a way of implementing family accounts for Microsoft/iOS/whatever so family's dont end up paying repeatedly for the same stuff, or at least get a discount on bulk purchase.

 

[mv740]

Loool i'm a student/ Poor and i wont lie That i have pirated my share of App/games but please 1-2$ are you kidding me! It is like when i used to Be on Ios and people wanted to "jailbreak to custom their phone" ahaha

 

[hopmedic]

I could see the point if we were talking about a $50 XBox game, but we're talking about a $.99 or $1.99 or so app. Puh leez. How much do you spend on your phone to begin with? It's not Microsoft you need to negotiate with. It is the developers who are selling the apps.

 

[rdubmu]

Hopmedic, it is probably your attitude on why you made only $20, you think you are entitled to a ton of profits, you should probably take a marketing class, you would think if more people downloaded your apps the more profits you could make. I am very surprised you are so against this, you only made $20 last month. I would call that a hobby and not a job.

Back to my original post, they need to change this to make it so that there is some sort of way to keep it at the 5 device limit within the same family.
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[hopmedic]

It IS a hobby, you nit-wit. But it is still MY time, and I deserve to be compensated for it. I am the one who decides what to charge for my apps, not Microsoft, so you are buying from ME, not Microsoft, when you make that purchase in the store. Microsoft is just a selling agent. So when you decide to "share" accounts (steal), it is ME that you are stealing from.

How much I make is irrelevant. In my case, I give my apps away, and use ads to generate revenue. But that is irrelevant, because it is MY choice to do it that way, not yours. Only the developer can legally choose to allow his work to be free of charge. The rest of you who are doing it are doing it in direct violation of the law, and whether you WERE in full knowledge of it or not, you are now. And whether you knew it or not has no relevance, either - ask any of the people who've been found guilty of stealing from the music publishers and have had to pay huge fines. You're no better than the common thug kid in grade school who beat up the little kid and stole his lunch money. You just hide behind a computer to do it. I guess that makes you more of a coward.

As far as five devices in the same family, Microsoft doesn't have the right to give a family rights that only I as the creator of the work can give. Only the creator of the work can assign those rights, unless he enters into an agreement which gives those rights to another entity. I didn't enter into such an agreement. Microsoft can't take my one purchase and give five copies to five different people.

 

[rdubmu]

Microsoft can make the change in when you submit an app to the windows marketplace, you have to go by certain rules. I think they should and if you can't figure out that this is my opinion then you are the "nit-wit".

This is the reason why my wife won't be buying into windows phone. As I said, it would be cheaper for me to go IOS, I really don't want to do this. I like windows phone. I hope some developers put some traction to this. A simple business concept would be the more customers you have the more potential you can make. Either thru in-app purchases (if this is even available thru windows phone) or via ads. Usually what is better for the consumer is better for the company when their is a win-win solution.

I am sorry that you can't make money off your apps, so what apps have you released? Are they ant good?
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[MacDaMachine]

Broke ass people in here smh.

 

[rdubmu]

@mac, way to assume. I just dont spend my money as freely. Others agree with me, especially people from IOS.
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[hopmedic]

If you don't have the moral wherewithal to not steal a buck app, I'd rather you steal it from an iOS developer. Have a great time over there.

 

[hopmedic]

Oh, and one of my apps competes with an official name app, and has 4 stars vs their 2 stars. So yeah, I wrote garbage. And I give it away.

 

[rdubmu]

So what is your app?
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[rdubmu]

I am not asking to steel, I just don't want to pay the same thing twice.
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[Etyrnus]

Siding with hopmedic on this one, and I'm not a developer. rdubmu, that mentality is part of why your xbox games retail for $60, why some of these aps cost $2-5 when the devolopers like hopmedic would prefer to charge $0.99. Are there really that many paid apps that you use? The majority of my paid apps are games.

 

[hopmedic]

It doesn't work on iOS. Doesn't matter.

 

[rdubmu]

Etyrnya, I am not really talking about the $1-$5 games and apps, mostly apps like navagon which at times cost $50, I honestly can't buy that more than once. Yes I bought it on wp7, and I don't use it because of Nokia drive now, but what about other expensive apps.
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[rdubmu]

It doesn't work on iOS. Doesn't matter.

what do you mean? I can download my wife's apps onto my account. It just ask for her password when I update the app.
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[Etyrnus]

I bothered to type your screen name correctly, at least have that much courtesy. And I have both Navigon and Nokia Drive on my phone. You couldn't share one physical GPS between two cars at the same time, and any decent one costs more than that app.