I will vote any companies to setup alternative market! Android is for openness. I believe there is very a big market gap in there.
By the way, Java Store is still beta, Actually, I think more than a year. On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 2:46 AM, Leigh McRae <[email protected] > wrote: > When I look at BlackBerry App World it lists over 200 countries which seems > high but I know they support almost everywhere by now so perhaps it's > correct. I find it crazy that Canada isn't supported considering NAFTA. > > I really don't think Google is all that interested in paid apps as they are > in extending their ad network to handhelds. You can't really blame them as > it's their core business. > > Also I suspect that Apple wouldn't have passed MS in market cap if the app > store had the same return policy as the android market. > > Leigh > > > > On 6/10/2010 11:51 AM, gosh wrote: > >> Oracle Android App Store >> >> Here's the countries that developers can currently sell from via >> Android Market: >> http://www.google.com/support/androidmarket/bin/answer.py?answer=150324 >> >> Here's the countries that Android Market offers free apps to: >> >> http://www.google.com/support/androidmarket/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=138294 >> >> Here's the countries that Android Market sells to: >> >> http://www.google.com/support/androidmarket/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=138294 >> (i.e. the 13 countries down the bottom of the same page) >> >> These haven't changed much for a long time - e.g. 9 countries in that >> first list haven't changed since September 2009. >> (Googles Knows why its not the same 13 where users can buy from) >> >> How does this compare with the other mobile OS vendors? >> >> Apple's App Store currently works in 90 countries. In Feb'2010 they >> added: Armenia, Botswana, Bulgaria, Jordan, Kenya, Macedonia, >> Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Niger, Senegal, Tunisia, and Uganda ... >> i.e. they are going to run out of global map real soon now. Say what >> you like about them, but they take paid apps seriously. >> I.e. see: >> http://developer.apple.com/iphone/news/archives/2010/february/#newsprofile >> >> Here's the 29 countries that Microsoft's Windows Phone Marketplace >> developers can sell to (and upload from): >> >> >> http://developer.windowsphone.com/help.aspx?id=fd9b5508-6436-4503-9174-45bf532b9dfd >> >> ...when the forthcoming Windows7 Phone hits the market later this >> year. >> >> What both Android app developers and global Android users need is >> another substantial app store run by a globally recognised ICT entity >> with a global presence (not carrier app stores such as Motorola's), an >> International commitment, and that uses more conventional payment >> methods (PayPal/ the standard Credit Cards). It will happen eventually >> given the gapping great gap in the Android Market service roll-out all >> this time. I'd lay odds on Oracle setting up an Android App Store that >> uses PayPal, which seems an odd possibility at first, but then when >> you think about it more seriously, it makes commercial sense from a >> lot of different angles: >> - Sun had a Java Store that used PayPal. >> - They now control Java. >> - They like making money from software. >> - As Google moves to Web apps within the forthcoming Web Store, Oracle >> could befriend Android developers (via global distribution) and >> gradually try to move them towards JavaFX apps (whatever plans they >> have for that). >> - In building such an app store it could showcase their existing >> Oracle Store product for building such things. >> - They could entice Android app developers to develop 'services' for >> their own apps on their own MySQL/Oracle DBMS servers (supplied by >> Oracle), or via an Oracle cloud. >> >> Any votes for an Oracle Android App Store? >> Any votes for a Yahoo! Android App Store? >> or >> What other major ICT/media company could pull off such a marketing >> coup? >> >> >> > > -- > Leigh McRae > www.lonedwarfgames.com > > > -- > 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]<android-developers%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > -- Regards, Michael Leung http://www.itblogs.info http://www.michaelleung.info -- 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
