Android Market getting paid apps this week?
By Paul Miller 
posted February 10th 2009 1:28PM
posted February 10th 2009 1:28PM
According to a passing mention in the Wall Street Journal, the Android Market could start accepting for-pay apps as early as this week. We've been expecting such a development to hit this quarter, and it makes sense with that RC33 update in the bag. Unfortunately, this WSJ quote -- pulled a piece on Microsoft's mobile strategy -- is all we've got to go on at the moment. Either way, paid apps are obviously an inevitability, and that financial incentive could be a major boost to the Android ecosystem... or the harbinger or farting apps.[Via Talk Android]
Androids don't fart.
Yea....
They burp.
paid apps are pointless unless we can save app to the SD card...
once we get that feature then the market can trully flurish.
With RC33, the Market states that you can re-download apps you've paid for at no charge.
Small steps my friend... Small steps...
We just got the ability to save pictures to the SD.
It will all come in time.
I hope.
If you root your phone and aren't scared of a command line, you can install apps to the sdacard already: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=468959
rooting the G1 was pretty simple... and im no linux genius... well i am but still its easy
;)
The market already has two farting apps... sigh.
I count 3, including the curiously named "Noble Fart."
Really?]
Palm, WinMo, Blackberry, and Symbian all had vast marketplaces to buy apps before your precious iPhone was even conceived.
Dude, the SIDEKICK had an app store before your iphone...
oh this is great news . . . this really is what android needs. I bet there are more than a few programmers of iphone apps just waiting to make the android version.
*of farting apps
This is a wonderful thing and I'm glad it's coming.
However, I hope that the purchase of these apps is tied to an Individual and that account and not the phone used. I don't want to have to buy all my programs again if I get a new phone. As long as I can do that (obviously without doing things like leting my friend Joe Schmo use the program I bought) then I'm happy.
I'll admit i like the iPhone and iPod Touch but really iEye go praise Jobs or something other than scream about apples not so awesomness on engadget...
I think that iEye is not an Apple user, but a PC user trolling as an Apple user to stoke the fires of PC hate for Apple.
I seriously doubt any Apple fanboy would be dense enough to stick around after being told endless times to be quiet.
@The WC
aha aha
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Laugh all you want, Dan, but everyone that comments here and possesses a hint of intelligence has long ago realised that The WC is right - iEye is a troll, and if you cannot see that, then you need to re-take Internet 101.
Yes, the iPhone was AWESOME in inovation, but it's just pushing foward a market and it's good that it can push the inovation of others. Yes, there will be copying for someone who is doing something that works. However, I won't buy an iPhone because I will never bow to their requirements. I want to be able to upload programs through other avenues. I want to be able to install (and for developers to be able to make) any program I want. It's my phone and I want to have control over it's use.
THere are two alternate places to download apps to the iPhone and you can already have full control of it via a number of jailbreaking/unlocking apps. Also you can get copy/paste from one of those third party app downloading programs on the iPhone.
kjb434,
yeah, but was it ever as easy as doing it on the iphone. Dont think so.
I think I will take the low rank as truth.
Look at the graphic user interfaces for Linux Distribution Repositories and you'll see an example of not just where Apple got the general for the App Store, but where they got most of the specific ideas for layout and user interface.
Apple exicuted it was well as any, but they hardly came up with the idea.
I thought we needed a FREAKIN' WIDGET SDK more urgently. How many months have to pass by for that to happen?
Unless Google found out that the G1 wouldn't run so smoothly with widgets on all 3 desktops.
It will be interesting to see if Apple tries an Intellectual Property fiasco.
BTW, "or the harbinger or farting apps."
The second "or" should be "of" i think. :)
It would be nice if they allowed Google checkout for this.
Just a q, but wouldn't it be sweet if you could configure your Android background as an iGoogle homepage to add and rearrange gadgets.
Why complicate with Google Checkout when any costs can simply be added to your mobile phone bill...
Still no RC33 for UK handsets.
Still none here* either. : (
*Houston, TX, USA
I like my phone but I won't pay for a single app until I can download to the SD card. Its just too much of a hassle unloading and reloading apps when I get my (weekly) memory is low warning! Seriously...maybe I should have waited for the Samsung Renoir...
And so begins Android Pirating
Bedebedebede Shiver Me Timbers Buck!
Some guy on engadget told me that the hacker community will have respect for android and not do that. I don't think he's right but we will see.
Do you really need THAT many apps...
I'm more worried about the system currently in place of rating them and sorting them. I'd like to see more ways of sorting, and a way better comments system...when teenieboppers simply go 5 stars and say "gr8, see my site! www.lonelybaboons.com" it really doesn't help much.
G1 UK people are still stuck on RC8 (UK version of RC30)
when are the UK peps going to get their update?
Awesome!!! What we’ve been waiting for! This is where “sndroid app review websites” will deliver infinate value to Android users. Let some else pay for and evaluate an app to get a better idea of its worth. http://www.google.com/search?q=android+app+review+websites
If u don't have rc33 u can easily manually upload it without having to root it. But root if u can, its worth it.