QuiteSimple wrote:
Dynamic licensing is still there. You can still post your app as trial ("free") version, which expires in let's say 7 days and after that asks for a license key. Another option is to post the free and paid versions as separate apps.
Generally speaking RIM decided to remove options, which they weren't able to fix for ages - Try&Buy and switching from Free to Paid.
this is somewhat pleasing.
In any case I cannot understand people who complain about the "problem" using dynamic licensing.
It tooked me 20 minutes to setup a dynamic licensing process, and 1 hour to secure it.
The only things you need to do is to let your server listten for and http post, generate and activation code based on a device id (store the interesting data from http post on a database if you need it for financial/statistics/support reason) and than answer with an activation code. This isn't really difficult and I love this way of selling an app.
I have the complete control on who bought my software, this let me give my users a better support because I can access my database to know the history of my customers by simply knowing a device id, an email or a transaction id. It let me creates complex statistics of my sellings and it let me to automate my tax operation with a simple server side script. In addiction it let me use the same way of registration process on my official site.
I can sell my software on my site at a discounted price using the same .COD files and the same server side code.
All of this is not possible when you use some other sort of licensing like the Android LVL, not in this easy way at least and not in this efficient and "no failure" procedure.
I really loved RIM for dynamic licensing and I hope that other platforms will copy RIM in this.
