* JBQ, this isn't aimed at you, this is aimed at the management of the Android project. I appreciate you putting the other side of the argument, but this is affecting the feasibility of non-US developers focusing on Android knowing that it will cover some of the bills. *
This is a question which is only relevant to developers, and is pretty fundamental to those trying to sustain a business from developing Android apps. As Stoyan pointed out, there's been no "official" answer to the question so what would you suggest?, Sit it out and wait until someone from the support team can be bothered to reply? How would Google feel if developers didn't answer support questions about Android apps for 10 days or more? Especially given developers have paid $25 USD for the privilege of getting into Market and asking the question. With 12 separate developers asking the question that's $300 USD of market joining fees to get absolutley no response to an issue that is affecting sales. If Multi-Currency isn't implemented it's only a matter of time before users are going to see apps in USD, GBP, CAD, EUR, and possibly AUD. There are already instances of users not taking notice of the currency symbol so there will be people assuming that a $1.50 AUD app is more expensive than an 0.99 USD app when in actual fact the AUD one is cheaper. This isn't even something that can be solved by geo-targetting the app because UK developers can't sell to UK G1 owners so there just isn't a market they can target that deals in GBP. To me this really is showing up how inexperienced Google is at selling to consumers. It's one thing to work in the B2B world where currency conversion is a fact of life, it's a whole other thing to put the burden of ForEx calculations onto Joe the plumber. Al. Jean-Baptiste Queru wrote: > Those questions about Market are at a level of detail that goes far > beyond using the SDK, and the people who support the SDK have little > or no visibility over that level of detail in the way Market works. > > Therefore, this discussion would be more appropriate on android-discuss. > > Thanks, > JBQ > > On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 6:12 AM, Stoyan Damov <[email protected]> wrote: > >> JBQ, this question was asked 10 days ago and not one Googler has >> bothered to post "We're looking into this". >> You can imagine that this forum (android-developers) will more and >> more start looking like android-market-for-developers forum given that >> most of the list users are not newbies anymore, have released their >> free and paid apps and are expecting *some* support from Google. >> >> Cheers, >> Stoyan >> >> On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Jean-Baptiste Queru <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Looks like this question was originally asked in the right forum. >>> >>> JBQ >>> >>> On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 4:56 AM, Al Sutton <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Android+Market/thread?fid=5d08f29aeb3d97060004642249d98a40&hl=en >>>> >>>> Google *really* need to do something about multi-currency pricing. The >>>> idea that a customer can't buy because the developer can't list a price >>>> in their currency is just crazy when you consider that alternative >>>> worldwide payments systems have been doing this for years. >>>> >>>> Al. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> >>>> * Written an Android App? - List it at http://andappstore.com/ * >>>> >>>> ====== >>>> Funky Android Limited is registered in England & Wales with the >>>> company number 6741909. The registered head office is Kemp House, >>>> 152-160 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, UK. >>>> >>>> The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not >>>> necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's >>>> subsidiaries. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> Jean-Baptiste M. "JBQ" Queru >>> Android Engineer, Google. >>> >>> Questions sent directly to me are likely to get forwarded to a public >>> forum with no further warning. >>> >>> > > > > -- * Written an Android App? - List it at http://andappstore.com/ * ====== Funky Android Limited is registered in England & Wales with the company number 6741909. The registered head office is Kemp House, 152-160 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, UK. The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's subsidiaries. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
