Comments on: Monetizing AIR Applications

By: Tink

Tink — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:20:47 +0000

Yeah nice find, never used it, but looks promising.

By: Chris Prakoso

Chris Prakoso — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:20:05 +0000

Guys,

I just came across the following website: http://www.sharify.it/
Seems to be a good solution for monetizing our Air App.
What do you think ?

By: Dean

Dean — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 17:43:30 +0000

Access to something system-unique would be great! That would certainly allow a measure of copy protection.

That said, I still plan to sell my AIR app online, and still expect to see a return.

By: Daniele

Daniele — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 01:14:44 +0000

I guess a good add-on would be a method to read some unique hardware ID, like the processor serial or something like that. In that way the app could encrypt that with keyA, and the user should send it to the developer. The developer would decrypt it with key A, re-encrypt it with keyB, and send it back as an unlock code.

This unlock code should be fed to the air app, that will decrypt it using keyB and if the result string matches the hardware ID: Bingo!

what do you think?

By: Tuddi

Tuddi — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 20:48:53 +0000

http://www.airapps.net/ has now been renamd to http://www.o2apps.com/ (“thanks” to abusive adobe) and by going to the new site, results in a mass mailing worm trying to access the visiting computer, and there are NO links working on that site. Nothing at all.

So… I would recommend people to NOT visit the site, unless they are well protected. It’s not as if we need more mass mailing of spam to take place.

By: razor7

razor7 — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:34:02 +0000

Jajaja…no…when you export the release version of your AIR app in Flex builder 3, there is a generated AIR installer for your app, so if you install it, you will get an EXE in the program files/your app directory.

By: Tink

Tink — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:10:55 +0000

EXE? As far as I’m aware the AIR extension is a ZIP file that contains n SWF and an XML file and any assets required.

By: razor7

razor7 — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 15:50:56 +0000

I have used Sothink SWF decompiler in my AIR app, and there is not AS in there, it seems that all the data is on the EXE file.

By: Campbell Anderson

Campbell Anderson — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 10:35:20 +0000

@Ryan – Simple answer – implement the native C plugin architecture and allow us to extend the AIR framework

By: Tink

Tink — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 09:18:33 +0000

“What about offering an AIR version of the Flickr uploader to only pro members and enforcing it on the server side?”

I guess that could entice the odd sale. It’ not a mahor selling point though as users need to be online to upload anyway, so who cares if you upload through AIR or through the browser. You pay to be able to upload right.

You my have a point though, as I hate using my browser for ftping.

I’d be interested in a list of way to monetize AIR. We’re definately interested in it.