Oracle Android App Store Here's the countries that developers can currently sell from via Android Market: http://www.google.com/support/androidmarket/bin/answer.py?answer=150324
Here's the countries that Android Market offers free apps to: http://www.google.com/support/androidmarket/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=138294 Here's the countries that Android Market sells to: http://www.google.com/support/androidmarket/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=138294 (i.e. the 13 countries down the bottom of the same page) These haven't changed much for a long time - e.g. 9 countries in that first list haven't changed since September 2009. (Googles Knows why its not the same 13 where users can buy from) How does this compare with the other mobile OS vendors? Apple's App Store currently works in 90 countries. In Feb'2010 they added: Armenia, Botswana, Bulgaria, Jordan, Kenya, Macedonia, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Niger, Senegal, Tunisia, and Uganda ... i.e. they are going to run out of global map real soon now. Say what you like about them, but they take paid apps seriously. I.e. see: http://developer.apple.com/iphone/news/archives/2010/february/#newsprofile Here's the 29 countries that Microsoft's Windows Phone Marketplace developers can sell to (and upload from): http://developer.windowsphone.com/help.aspx?id=fd9b5508-6436-4503-9174-45bf532b9dfd ...when the forthcoming Windows7 Phone hits the market later this year. What both Android app developers and global Android users need is another substantial app store run by a globally recognised ICT entity with a global presence (not carrier app stores such as Motorola's), an International commitment, and that uses more conventional payment methods (PayPal/ the standard Credit Cards). It will happen eventually given the gapping great gap in the Android Market service roll-out all this time. I'd lay odds on Oracle setting up an Android App Store that uses PayPal, which seems an odd possibility at first, but then when you think about it more seriously, it makes commercial sense from a lot of different angles: - Sun had a Java Store that used PayPal. - They now control Java. - They like making money from software. - As Google moves to Web apps within the forthcoming Web Store, Oracle could befriend Android developers (via global distribution) and gradually try to move them towards JavaFX apps (whatever plans they have for that). - In building such an app store it could showcase their existing Oracle Store product for building such things. - They could entice Android app developers to develop 'services' for their own apps on their own MySQL/Oracle DBMS servers (supplied by Oracle), or via an Oracle cloud. Any votes for an Oracle Android App Store? Any votes for a Yahoo! Android App Store? or What other major ICT/media company could pull off such a marketing coup? -- 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
