On 2/8/2011 9:33 AM, Mark Carter wrote: > Isn't one key reason why Android non-phones have not taken off, that > Android Market does not offer paid apps when there is no sim card > present?
Considering that neither Sprint nor Verizon in the US use GSM (which is the only kind of phone you'll find a SIM card in), that can't literally be true. Maybe some other flavor of "uniqueness" is required that comes along with being a phone? In fact some of the phone manufacturers managed to screw up their phone configurations so that the "unique ID" didn't end up initialized correctly (at least as it was exposed to Android), and systems that relied on that value (like Papaya) were getting VERY confused as hundreds of customers were all logging in with the same ID. So much for uniqueness, Tim -- 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.
