Is anyone making money in the Chrome Web Store?

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7 4 15 years ago

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I haven't been watching the Chrome Web Store for awhile, but now that Unity 3.5 (beta) supports NaCl and Flash, I decided to give it another look. After a quick look around, I don't see a price tag anywhere. I clicked on as many 'Add to Chrome' buttons as I could stand. No prices. I installed some games that I know are sold elsewhere, and played them a little, yet encountered no apparent form of monetization.

Is anybody making (or even charging) money in this venue?

wavephorm• 15 years ago

Heck no. Google doesn't care about developers at all. Google's entire business strategy is to devalue everything outside of its core business, thus leaving Google ads as the only money-making opportunity on the internet, where it already has nearly a monopoly.

Android, Google Docs, Google Plus, it's all a giant effort to devalue iOS, Office, and Facebook.

JS_startup• 15 years ago

Not to my knowledge. Chrome Apps and the Chromebook will be yet another quietly abandoned Google pet project that will burn any developers naive enough to hitch their cart to that horse.

karterk• 15 years ago

I can't talk about making money - but I have a few moderately successful free apps, and one thing I can say is that a lot more people search and stumble on these apps than they would if it was not on the webstore.

euroclydon• 15 years ago

I listed my existing web application on there, and while a few hundred people have installed it, they tend to skew southern European, and to the best of my knowledge, none of them has purchased the premium version.

Is anyone making money in the Chrome Web Store?

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