After lots of stop-go-stop-go, users in most countries can now access Android paid-for apps from the Android Market. The announcement was made relatively quietly at the Google I/O developer conference a few days ago, and the news has garnered suprisingly little attention.
[NOTE: Shoppers in most new countries, apps are paid for by credit card in dollars)
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The full list of countries (from Androidpolice.com, the link on Google’s site keeps disappearing) is posted below. Pic snapped at the event by AndroidCentral.
The Market also gets some new features, including a better Top App chart, Editor’s Choice for top picks, Top Developers profiling the writers of the best stuff, better ‘related apps’ for improved recommendations, and Trending apps so you can see what’s hot and follow the crowd.
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In related news, in-app payments are now possible using the Google In-App Payments API, opening the door for app developers to make continuing revenues, or provide billable services from within their apps.
Full list of countries where you can access paid-for Android Apps:
| Albania Algeria Angola Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Armenia Aruba Australia Austria Azerbaijan Bahamas Bahrain Bangladesh Belarus Belgium Belize Benin Bolivia Bosnia and Herzegovina Botswana Brazil Bulgaria Burkina Cambodia Cameroon Canada Cape Verde Chile Colombia Costa Rica | Cote d’ Ivore Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador Estonia Fiji Finland France Gabon Germany Ghana Greece Guatemala Guinea-Bissau Haiti Honduras Hong Kong Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Ireland Israel Italy Jamaica Japan | Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Latvia Lebanon Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Malaysia Mali Malta Mauritius Mexico Moldova Morocco Mozambique Namibia Nepal Netherlands Netherlands Antilles New Zealand Nicaragua Niger Nigeria Norway Oman Pakistan | Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru Philippines Poland Portugal Qatar Romania Russia Rwanda Senegal Serbia Singapore Slovakia Slovenia South Africa South Korea Spain Sri Lanka Sweden Switzerland Taiwan Tajikistan Tanzania Thailand Togo Trinidad and Tobago Tunisia Turkmenistan | Uganda Ukraine United Kingdom United States Uruguay Uzbekistan Venezuela Vietnam Yemen Zambia Zimbabwe |
