When I look at BlackBerry App World it lists over 200 countries which
seems high but I know they support almost everywhere by now so perhaps
it's correct. I find it crazy that Canada isn't supported considering
NAFTA.
I really don't think Google is all that interested in paid apps as they
are in extending their ad network to handhelds. You can't really blame
them as it's their core business.
Also I suspect that Apple wouldn't have passed MS in market cap if the
app store had the same return policy as the android market.
Leigh
On 6/10/2010 11:51 AM, gosh wrote:
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?
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Leigh McRae
www.lonedwarfgames.com
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