For GSM devices, the sim card is used to identify the country which is used by the Market app to determine whether paid apps should be shown or not. If there is no sim card, then there are no paid apps. I assume something similar happens on CDMA devices. And I'm pretty sure non-phone devices are no different either.
On 8 February 2011 23:51, Tim Mensch <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > -- 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.
