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[Roberto Alsina <roberto.alsina@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Specially for cross-platform apps, I expect they will have their
infrastructure already in place.

The benefits I see in us providing this are:

1) For companies/devs who don't have that infrastructure in place.
2) For downloadable content that has to be bought, which I suspect can be
subsumed into the basic app story
purchase, modulo app sandboxing issues

For zero-cost content, it's going to be easier for the app developer to
just download from S3 or wherever.
So, considering that we are aiming to have application purchases in place
after october, perhaps this is simply making that API general enough for
this use case, and thinking of the sandboxing implications of one click
package having read-access to the contents of another, and click packages
maybe not having any visible app?

Am I missing any other scenario here?

On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 5:45 PM, Pat McGowan <pat.mcgowan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> On 07/26/2013 03:03 PM, Alexander Sack wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 4:23 PM, Daniel Holbach
> > <daniel.holbach@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> Hello everybody,
> >>
> >> since the beginning of this project there was discussion about
> >> supporting the notion of downloadable content.
> >>
> >> This would for example be relevant in a game where you can download (and
> >> potentially buy) new maps, new levels or buy extra content for other
> apps.
> >>
> >> As this feels like a bigger project right now, it might be good to
> >> define its priority first. Alexander, Pat: can you share any information
> >> about this?
> >>
> >> Dependencies of the project would be:
> >>  - Pre-dependency: purchasing functionality.
> >>  - App store: app authors will want to upload the content
> >>               there, associate an app with the content. Have
> >>               billing work through the app store.
> >>  - SDK/Platform API: it'd be good if there was a standard way to
> >>                      handle downloadable content.
> >>  - Security: do we have any security concerns?
> >>  - Client: to be hooked up with ubuntu-download-manager and
> >>            client-side purchasing bits.
> >>
> >> Questions to start the conversation might be:
> >>  - Who'd be willing to help spec this?
> >>  - How much work do we expect this to be?
> >>  - Where will the lion share of work happen?
> >>  - Who will own this sub-project?
> > When I asked Pat last time he said we need it for OLS..  which is
> > usually a placeholder for essential items for shipping a real phone,
> > rather than just ship a distro/platform.
> >
> > I think it needs to be a cross effort of security, foundations and OLS
> > again and should be squeezed into the same effort that will deal with
> > general payments and we should have code etc. at alpha/demo state by
> > 13.10 I believe.
> So far we have deferred this and viewed it as a slightly lower priority.
> My understanding is that many apps have their own methods for getting
> additional in-app content. We had not yet considered any work on this
> prior to Oct.
>
> CC David for his inputs.
>
> Pat
> >> Thanks in advance.
> >>
> >> Have a great day,
> >>  Daniel
> >>
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