Sign our petition to allow paid apps for all countries on the Android Market
Posted on May 27th, 2010 by Christoffer Du Rietz. Filed under Uncategorized and tagged with Android Market. – 11 Comments »
Hello everyone!
If you’ve been following us for a while you know that we are frustrated, to say the least, about not being able to survive as a company on just making great apps and releasing them on the Android Market. Why is this? Well, being in Sweden, Google won’t allow us to sell our apps on the official market for Android apps that they control. The Android Market is now almost two years old, so we ask ourselves, how can this be? Google, wake up!
If worse comes to worse and Google can’t see this as a problem and do something about it, we have to move on to another platform where we can make great apps and get something back for it. If you want to help us out, and you think that this is an outrage too, we’d love nothing more than for you to sign the petition we’ve started to try and get Google to acknowledge this problem and fix it. Please visit the petition and sign it now and get the word out to all your friends and followers so we can keep on making the Android Market a better place for everyone.
(And to the happy users of our current Android apps we just want to assure you that signing this petition will not risk you having to pay for the free apps you’re already using today. These will always stay free. But we’ve had many users asking for premium features that we just can’t put time into developing if we can’t get paid for our effort.)
I travel between India and US and am only able to purchase apps when I’m in the US. It’s really ridiculous. I thought it would take 2-3 months after making paid apps available after getting the teething troubles sorted in the US. I certainly didn’t expect it to take 2 years. If Paypal can do it, why can’t a company as large as Google do it?
[...] of being able to make money off their apps at some point, and more recently the small startup set up an online petition while saying they are getting so tired of the situation that they’re considering moving to [...]
[...] - Sign our petition to allow paid apps for all countries on the Android Market (mobisle) - Petition To Enable Paid Android Apps In More Countries Draws Thousands [...]
[...] - Sign our petition to allow paid apps for all countries on the Android Market (mobisle) - Petition To Enable Paid Android Apps In More Countries Draws Thousands [...]
Please enable this for all countries
[...] finns enbart i gratisversion för oss i Europa eftersom google inte tillåter betalningar i vår market ännu, men reklamen visas enbart när man har klarat ett spel och är inte störande [...]
I want to sign the petition to let outside us-residents to use Android Market’s paid apps…
Try contacting Jason Chen at:
jchen@manifoldreality.org
His linkedin page:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/rundfunk
He helped develop Google checkout and is the Developer Advocate for Android. So he should be advocating for us developers who joined the development program, no?
I need buy apps in by my droid in Chile. Oh my god….. Google the credits cards, paypal, the ways exists
I’m not sure where this company is located. No info about Mobisle. I presume it is located in Sweden. Well, no more worries because Paid Apps is now in Sweden. Read this article from October 1, 2010. No reason to make apps for the iPhone anymore.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/206711/google_adds_paid_apps_to_android_market_in_more_countries.html
Espero que se generalice el uso de app a todo el mundo. Es parte de la democracia, el conocimiento y la tecnología al alcance de todos. Gracias