Google’s official Android Developers and Mobile blogs haven’t been updated yet, but according to an e-mail from Eric Chu to mobile application builders first republished by Phandroid, Android Market will become available to users in Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, Netherlands, and Poland in the coming weeks.
Hello,
I’m writing to let you know that Android Market will become available to users in Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, Netherlands, and Poland in the coming weeks. You can now target these countries for your application(s) via the publisher website at market.android.com/publish. As we add support for additional countries, we will send out subsequent notifications to you. Note that your apps will not become available in these new countries unless you specifically select them in the publisher website.
Thanks for your support, and we look forward to continue working with you on Android Market.
Eric Chu, Android Market
This means that developers can now start building applications for Android-powered phones before most of the countries cited above actually have access to devices that run Google’s open-source mobile OS. We’ll take that as a hint that the company is ready to move fast in launching compatible phones across Europe.
On a sidenote: for now, the Android Market only allows for free apps to be added, but Google is expected to announce support for paid applications this quarter.
It’ll be interesting to see how the fight between Android Market, first opened in August 2008, and Apple’s App Store plays out in the years to come.
“It’ll be interesting to see how the fight between Android Market, first opened in August 2008, and Apple’s App Store plays out in the years to come.”
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IPhone doesn’t have COM, it’s going to be a KO for Google Android.
Without COM, the iPhone is a toy. I have to severely cripple the iPhone implementation of our new business app because the API for running the GPS and messaging monitor in the background simply isn’t there.
So may people have G1s now. Apple is going to suffer the same fate with the iPhone as it did with the Apple II after IBM released PCDOS. Same exact paradigm, 20 years later, except this time Google is Microsoft.
I’m still making the iPhone version, but it’s crippled compared to it’s Android brother.
this is good to know. they extend to Europe
This is exciting to hear. I wonder what will be the next big Android phone in Europe.
Developers have to get paid. Google will get what they pay for.
I dunno if you noticed this but a large number of android applications are free versions of pay software, they simply make you pay on the website when you sign up for the service.
With that said, who cares if the phone client apps are free or not?
Both our clients will be free as well, but if you want the business features in the web commander interface or a LAN so you can run the software from your own business network it costs money.
This is the business model for Android. Having the user pay at the download stage the way old Java games were sold on mobiles 3 years ago is the old way.
As a developer you should keep in mind that nothing stops your Android or iPhone application from querying a server, checking a subscription level and unlocking features based on that subscription level.
As long as there is free functionality for Apple or Google to test the app with, along with a test account with all features, I don’t see how they could block your app from being approved.
Unless they are total capitalist hating commies. If so, prompt your customers to switch citing that reason. I don’t think it will come to that when ours is in the approval process.
Our app even redirects to use the software at a different host based on a list which is loaded on init(). So a company can use an instance of the server software which is not hosted by us. After they pay licensing fees of course. And we control that domain list.
Rather old news, I’ve got this email, too, today, but I’ve already got nearly the same one the end of last year (12/31/2008).
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If you do not pay $35 for this e-book, you will spend at least twice as long developing your android app.
I have found nothing similar for the iPhone SDK so far and had to rummage through the API myself. Only to find that there is no IPC. No broadcasting messages, ect…
I hope to see many cool Android apps surface, amongst ours, and the ones already out there. As for the iPhone platform, let’s hope it improves with future releases.
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T-Mobile/T-Com operate in all of these countries. I can think of no other reason for these group of countries to be chosen over say France/UK (Large Population) or Ireland (Worlds biggest cell phone market) or any of the other countries.
This is T-Mobile getting ready to launch the G1 or fabled G2 in Europe I’d say…
Ah, European quoting style doesn’t work on TechCrunch
What I had at the top of my posts was this quote form the article “Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, Netherlands, and Poland”
Will it be easier to code as compared to the iPhone platform?
LOLZ!!!!!
Some day, some day in the *distant* future….
In the “year 2000″, it will be easier to code.
Nice to see people read before they post.
Seriously though, Android is about way easier to code for than the iPhone. Google made the API so you don’t have to jump through hoops.
iPhone really cripples your ideas and puts you at the mercy of the sandbox. iPhone is the dev equivalent of the soviet union.
everyone wants a piece of the iphone craze
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oOOo SHiit I liVe in Poland .. and im getting that shiit when it comes out
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Canada, when?
“We will introduce the G1 by Jan. 30 in the Netherlands, Czech Republic and Austria,” T-Mobile Chief Executive Hamid Akhavan said on Monday.
The Android-based phone will be available in Germany on Feb. 2 and in Poland later that month, Akhavan said.
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