Kommerzielle Software in Android Market
Google verschickte an registrierte Entwickler eine E-Mail mit zwei Ankündigungen in Sachen Android Market.
Android Market - Erweiterung
In Q1 2009 soll Zugang zum Android Market für folgende Länder erweitert werden:
- Deutschland
- Österreich
- Tschechei
- Niederlande
Später sollen weitere europäische Länder sowie Asien folgen.
Diese Erweiterung war allerdings zu erwarten, denn für Q1 2009 ist der Verkaufsstart von Andoird-Smartphones geplant. Welche Geräte genau auf den Markt gehen - ist noch unklar. Dennoch, sei das G1 oder dessen Nachfolger, oder Agora - ohne den Zugang zum Android Market wird es nicht gehen.
Kommerzielle Software
Google kündigt außerdem an, den Vertrieb kommerzieller Software durch den Android Market zu ermöglichen. Bis dato sind alle Applikationen auf dem Market kostenlos.
Das führt zwar nicht dazu, dass die Apps von schlechter Qualität sind, begründet aber die Zurückhaltung von einzelnen Entwicklern und Firmen, Zeit und Geld in Entwicklung von Android-Applikation zu investieren. Die Möglichkeit mit Android-Apps Geld zu verdienen, wird diese Situation auf jeden Fall verändern.
Google plant den Support für kommerzielle Software in folgender Reihenfolge zu starten:
- USA und England
- Deutschland, Österreich und Niederlande
- Frankreich, Italien und Spanien
Hier ist die E-Mail von Google an die Entwickler:
Hello,
Thank you for your participation in Android Market!
Since we launched a couple months ago, the team has been working on
several significant updates to Android Market. I’d like to let you know
about these upcoming changes and what they will mean to you and other
members of our developer community.
Many of you have asked about international expansion plans. I’m happy to
inform you that Android Market will become available to users to download
apps in additional European countries starting early Q1 2009. Some of the
countries we will initially support are Germany, Austria, Czech Republic
and the Netherlands. As we add support for additional countries in Europe
and Asia, we will send out subsequent notifications to you. In
mid-January, we will update the Android Market publisher website to enable
country targeting. Please start thinking about which countries you want to
target and begin preparing your products accordingly (e.g.,
localization). Note that your apps will not become available in these new
countries unless you specifically select them in the publisher website,
after we update it.
Additionally, I would like to confirm that Android Market will support
priced applications starting early Q1 2009, as we’d originally stated last
fall. Given the country-by-country work required to set up payment support
for developers in different countries, we will enable priced app support
in Q1 for developers operating in these countries in the following order:
(1) United States and UK; (2) Germany, Austria and Netherlands; (3)
France, Italy and Spain. By the end of Q1 2009, we will announce support
for developers operating in additional countries. Developers operating in
the above listed countries should begin finalizing their priced
applications, including determining the appropriate pricing strategy.
Finally, please note that our team may need to occasionally contact you
via email or the publisher website to collect necessary product
information (such as screenshots and descriptions). This information would
be used for the Android Market website, found at
http://market.android.com, which gives applications a second channel of
exposure via the web in addition to the normal on-device access.
We will send out additional details on all these items in the coming
weeks. Thanks for your support, and we look forward to continue working
with you on Android Market.
Eric Chu,
Android Market
Google, Inc.
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View, CA 94043
