The Android Market is fully (ish) functional in PRC, it's just that it doesn't support paid apps. One year ago, Traditional Chinese app descriptions were supported but no Traditional Chinese country (e.g. Taiwan, Hong Kong) had paid-app support. So, it would not be unreasonable to include Simplified Chinese support.
Most Android handsets I come across in China, do have Android Market pre installed. So there's a license fee going on there (probably). I think it's safe to say there are millions of Simplified Chinese Android Market users out there who cannot read the app descriptions. On 7 June 2011 09:37, Zsolt Vasvari <zvasv...@gmail.com> wrote: > The Android Market doesn't support PRC, so the lack of simplified > Chinese is somewhat acceptable. > > Of course, the PhD's on the Android Market team don't realize that a > significant portion of Singapore's population speaks Mandarid written > using simplified characters, so even if you don't support the People's > Republic, a large percentage of one of the richest countries in the > world is not catered for. > > > > On Jun 7, 9:17 am, Mark Carter <mjc1...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > Simplified Chinese is not even supported - that's 1.3 billion people > unable > > to read app descriptions. > > > > If you have a language that is not supported but most (or a large > > percentage) of your users speak, then I would tag on the translation to > the > > end of (or instead of) the english app description (since that is > probably > > what those users will see). > > > > Ideal, I know :( > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
