My Droid 1 has Market paid apps no prob and hasn't been on a plan since day 1. On Feb 8, 2011 8:58 AM, "Mark Carter" <mjc1...@googlemail.com> wrote: > For GSM devices, the sim card is used to identify the country which is used > by the Market app to determine whether paid apps should be shown or not. If > there is no sim card, then there are no paid apps. I assume something > similar happens on CDMA devices. And I'm pretty sure non-phone devices are > no different either. > > On 8 February 2011 23:51, Tim Mensch <tim.men...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 2/8/2011 9:33 AM, Mark Carter wrote: >> > Isn't one key reason why Android non-phones have not taken off, that >> > Android Market does not offer paid apps when there is no sim card >> > present? >> >> Considering that neither Sprint nor Verizon in the US use GSM (which is >> the only kind of phone you'll find a SIM card in), that can't literally >> be true. Maybe some other flavor of "uniqueness" is required that comes >> along with being a phone? >> >> In fact some of the phone manufacturers managed to screw up their phone >> configurations so that the "unique ID" didn't end up initialized >> correctly (at least as it was exposed to Android), and systems that >> relied on that value (like Papaya) were getting VERY confused as >> hundreds of customers were all logging in with the same ID. >> >> So much for uniqueness, >> >> Tim >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Android Discuss" group. >> To post to this group, send email to android-discuss@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> android-discuss+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en. >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. > To post to this group, send email to android-discuss@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-discuss+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en. >
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