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Using paid apps in corporate environments
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? 🧐
Hey Emilie_B !
I think being able to buy all paid apps available would be the ultimate goal. Otherwise only apps with licensing constructions outside the playstore could be bought, but there are smaller app developers that only provide payments trough the google play store. Since they might offer usefull apps, companies aren't able to buy those in bulk.
Again, its not a question I got asked a lot but it happens every now and then. And seeing the low response on this topic, its not a hot topic among others I think.
Personally I like the way Apple solved this, buying apps trough the apple business manager portals and dstributing this to an MDM. But the whole proces of enrollment and communication between Apple business manager and MDM is completely different from Android's version. Apps can only be selected via business manager, there is no iFrame like solution. So i'm with Moombas that it might be a big challenge for Android to even implement something like this.
Just me thinking out loud here haha
