Nowadays, when we open any website we see “download for free, apply for free, and register for free”, how do we have all these free services and applications? Do all these people make money from these applications or just making it for fun? Do everyone can sign for a developer account and create an application, but what can benefit?
First, I think as many people think (Urbutun forums) that “Free” means free for users not free for developers, because application developers are paid to sell their applications and it will make social popularity for the site or company it buys like facebook (Build social application on facebook platform). So it means “free in liberty not free of price” (GNU). Illusion labs are one example of companies that are specialized in buying the application from the developer, which means that they gave the company the secret code responsible for the program, and change somehow in the features of the application and sell it again for the users (Illusion labs), and sell it again for large companies like Mac and Apple iPhone games (How to make money off free iPhone games). That’s one of the sources of money the developers can get from.
Another way the developers benefit from the applications is advertising. When we enter a website like “Facebook”, we see lots of advertising aside of the site and also the applications. Everyone now can log on the facebook, so log in with your account and take the quiz of “what is your eye color?” you will see beside the advertising is about new type of eye lenses or new store that make great discount on the price of medical glasses.So, we can find that free applications are free software that benefit both the developer, he got paid, and also the user, as he use it freely. Advertising also is the other reason that pushes the marketing companies to buy the applications from the developers.
Early, I experienced this mission and I understood that these application makers can work for a certain destination from which they ay him... I was sending my final website to my friends. they told me that our friends have a company and they want you to make them a website with its applications and they will pay you for that... So, I got the idea...
If do you know any reason, let me know from you... Welcome to your comments...
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