[asterisk-users] 3rd party app store

[Darren Nickerson]

On Sep 18, 2010, at 11:41 AM, Mark Deneen wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 11:52 PM, Dean Collins <Dean at cognation.net> wrote:
>> Any thoughts on why the lack of traffic?
>> 
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Dean
> 
> 
> Not enough applications to play immature bathroom sounds.

You could well be right, but consider for a moment a few alternatives.

Perhaps it's the $5000 up front just to be listed? I see the fee's reduced to $2500 now as a promo, but still .... that's a huge barrier for most.

Or perhaps its the fact that the nature of the apps that get listed means they aren't usually 'purchase-able' with a simple 'click to buy' (how do you sell SIP trunking with a click-to-buy???)  - and as a consequence there's no purchase capability built into the asteriskexchange site, just link outs to different purchase-ish URLs for the various products.  Anyone looking to sell their app would need to develop their own point-of-sale/payment processing systems  .... so it's really not an 'app store' at all in the traditional sense.

Kudos to digium for realizing this goal, but I think the $5000 get-in cost has resulted in the lack of interest/popularity, and limited the listings to only the largest, most profitable asterisk/digium partners.

-d