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Using paid apps in corporate environments
Hi Michael,
i guess we had 2 possibilities yet in the past:
- App developer provides a license key being provided via managed app config to the app. The app contacts a license server of them to validate and count it, if not valid, not able to contact the license server or count exceeded, it does not work.
- App just provided by the developer as an apk (not available through play store), so you only get the app when paid for (maybe also combined with a license key to be provided to the app via managed app config).
Hi, thats indeed how most of it goes now. It works for most customers but I hope there will be a solution for other apps as well.
I guess the problem is, you would need to have a "general" company google account (like the one you use for the binding) where you would need to buy an amount of licenses and those get then provided to all google accounts created through that by the MDM.
The problem here is, you need to consider so many things like "When do you revoke such licenses?", "Does the MDM need to report somthing back when you remove/unenroll a device from it?" ... and so on
It seem easy but i guess it's very complicated to acchieve it. The question most likely is, is Google willing to investigfate this? Emilie_B
It would make sense to use the same account as the one you use for the binding. It would make it one central hub for managing everything around apps and management for your work devices.
Lets see what Emilie has to say!
Hey Michel!
Thank you for sparking a new conversation about paid apps and how we could make these available for deployment - hearing your ideas is always interesting!
How do you imagine this could work? Would Moombas' idea of buying multiple user licenses work? Or would you rather buy a company license? 🧐
