Totally agree, I'm very concerned about how the Chinese market gets handled.
S On 19 Mar 2009, at 04:52, madcoder wrote: > > Is the Android Market available to users in China now? With their > Android phone coming out very soon, what will the market look like for > them? Only free apps? Any apps at all? > > There are over a billion potential customers in China (admittedly, > most can't afford the Android phone, but there's still a lot of > consumers). It wouldn't be too hard to translate apps to Chinese, or > at least 'passable' Chinese. > > The big question is when payable apps will be available for China? > Will it take so long that most users in China will take their phones > to shops to get them rooted and just use copies of software? Using > pirated software is very common in China. If the market were to open > up quickly, it might curb that habit and make China a huge source of > revenue. > > Where I live in Thailand, the legitimate iPhone has finally arrived a > few months ago. Almost everyone here has jail broken iPhones, all > loaded with apps/games for free by the various shops that do the jail > breaking. It's been such a long wait for the iPhone, that the Thai > people just figured out a way to get it themselves. Now the locals > don't want to use the App store to buy apps, they'd rather have a > bunch of free ones from the local shops. > > Ease of access (convenience) can change that habit. Why go through > the trouble of hacking a phone, also gaining the potential security > problems and bugs, when apps can be purchased easily and maintain > improved stability/security? When people see how easy it is to just > go to a shop and pay a few buck to get tons of apps installed instead > of paying for them through the market, they may ultimately just skip > the market altogether. > > There's potentially a huge amount of money to be made in China. Is > anyone at Google keen to this? If Google waits to long, it might be > lost. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" 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-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
