> 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.
Yes, I also find it odd that there are four countries that they sell to, but don't let developers/publishers sell from, as in: Australia Canada New Zealand Switzerland I don't know about New Zealand but in those other 3, Google has its own software development efforts, e.g. WAVE in Australia. I suspect that they just didn't want any of their own programmers with deep internal tech knowledge to jump-ship with start-ups selling Android apps, in the year just gone. i.e. They take great pride in the fact that they have a high retention rates of programmers, while places like Microsoft have been losing good coders for some years now. > 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. Yes its a win-win-win situation (software publishers/Internet industry/ users). Before the Internet I used to publish software for a living. In 1994/95 the www killed all that - the early-adopters who used to be the buyers of software from those publishers other than the Microsofts and Adobes of the world, all went to the big free download on the web. Most people I know who contribute to free open source projects have other jobs that pay their wages - e.g. academia. The App Store is the first mechanism since 1994 that gives something back to software developers, while also giving customers software for a few bucks (versus the ridiculous price of games on the consoles our kids pay or pirate), while also keeping the Internet healthy with activity and innovation. Apple has effectively tapped the great untapped resource that is software developers and publishers, who don't have some other source of income or some other activity they'd rather be doing. So yes, I agree with you whole-heartedly - it is a large part of the reason Apple have shot to the top in market cap. And I whole-heartedly wish Android provided a similar future avenue - if not via Google, then via some other worthy advocate for innovation and progress. Steve On Jun 11, 2:46 am, Leigh McRae <leigh.mc...@lonedwarfgames.com> wrote: > 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&answe... > > > Here's the countries that Android Market sells to: > >http://www.google.com/support/androidmarket/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answe... > > (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/#newspr... > > > 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=fd9b5508-6436-4503-917... > > > ...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? > > -- > Leigh McRaewww.lonedwarfgames.com -- 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
