[android-developers] Re: Selling apps from Canada in the Market?

2010-04-07 Thread Brill Pappin
Thanks. I may try and use it or rewrite it for branding. Actually, I bet if you branded it like the Android Market, google would notice :) They would ask you to take it down but at least you'd get their attention! - Brill On Apr 6, 11:59 am, Rob r...@hobbyistsoftware.com wrote: you can link to

[android-developers] Re: Selling apps from Canada in the Market?

2010-04-07 Thread Brill Pappin
Hi Scott! Yah, it has, Startup Weekend Toronto I think, but I see posts from you now and then :) I am *very* amazed at the fact that I can't sell anything in the Market. Based on how long this and other issues (link linking) are taking to resolve I'm starting to question Googles commitment to

[android-developers] Re: Selling apps from Canada in the Market?

2010-04-07 Thread gosh
I wouldn't hold your breathe there Brill. If you do a search in this group on thread titled 'Countries for selling priced applications in Android Market' you'll see that many others 'were' asking this question back in August 2009 (and elsewhere in this group). Google allowed nine countries to

[android-developers] Re: Selling apps from Canada in the Market?

2010-04-07 Thread Brill Pappin
I suspect the issues is actually not that they don't want to allow it, I think that the issue is that they are trying to keep everything inside their own umbrella. What I mean is, Google has a payment processor business and they have the app business; they are trying to keep everything under one

[android-developers] Re: Selling apps from Canada in the Market?

2010-04-07 Thread gosh
I hope you're right Brill, but the 7 months with 'zero' movement on this issue in 'any' country, doesn't sit well with it. The trouble for ALL Android app developers who want to sell applications for years to come, is that developers from the countries 'not' in those 9 (Germany, Austria, Japan,

Re: [android-developers] Re: Selling apps from Canada in the Market?

2010-04-06 Thread Rob
you can link to an app with my new web-service -I know, crazy that I have to build such a thing, but until google fix this, you are welcome to use it. http://and-download.hobbyistsoftware.com this is an example link http://and-download.hobbyistsoftware.com/android/download?name=VLC

[android-developers] Re: Selling apps from Canada in the Market?

2010-04-05 Thread Brill Pappin
It's downright crazy. I don't think it's all the Android Market department's fault, as they relay on Google Checkout to handle payment, but the checkout folks will not allow a Canadian address or account information as a seller (I was able to buy my N1 through the market without any problem