Plain stupid. I bought an app before boarding a plain to Europe. Got to Europe, inserted my local sim and couldn't get refund on the app.
Limiting paid apps to geographic location or specific provider is stupid, reduces developer potential income and limits the success of this platform. On Mar 5, 1:53 am, gjs <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Probably yes ( they will loose paid apps access ) if they are > international roaming / not on a TMO sim account. Who's provider sim > card are you using ? > > I have an ebay G1 in non US/UK and non TMO sim account and cannot see > any paid apps (yet) either through GSM/3G nor WIFI. > > I'd be interested to know if, with G1, when international roaming and > TMO sim outside us/uk, still allows access to paid apps in the market, > with GSM/3G/WIFI, anybody ? > > I guess one of the issues for Google is who gets the 30% cut when you > are not explictly associated with an official provider ( using their > sim card ) ? > > It is probably one of those nebulous issues when this is considered in > conjunction with google checkout and foreign currencies, international > data roaming and its inter provider agreements, your location at the > time of purchase, the country of origin of your credit card being used > for the purchase and sim card of provider being used. > > From a consumption perpective paid apps currently appear to limited to > (G1) phones with sim cards from the official providers being operated > in the sanctioned locations. > > The Market Store app may look the same to all users but it seems to be > stocked with different content based on some of the variables > mentioned. > > ( I can only guess that this maybe one of the Market related benefits > offered as part of the private deals being done to bring exclusive > providers onboard - think Kogan and Optus in Australia ). > > Try this for example - can you access / download (free) Pac-Man from > the Market store ? I cannot, don't know why ... > > Regards > > On Mar 5, 7:37 am, Chister Nordvik <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I bought a G1 on ebay from the US and was wondering why I don't get > > access to the paid apps even if I am living outside US? Does that mean > > that if anyone in US takes their G1 to i.ex. Canada they will loose > > paid apps access? > > > Will it work if I connect with my G1 through a US proxy server with > > WIFI? > > > -Christer --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
