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Android Market to have “new payment options” with “authorized carriers”

By on July 25, 2010 at 10:24am in Mobile News

Some advancements when it comes to possible payment structure of paid apps from Android Market. Google has stated on the Android Developers Blog that “Please note that we have updated the Android Market Developer Distribution Agreement (DDA). This is in preparation for some work we’re doing on introducing new payment options, which we think developers will like. In the spirit of transparency, we wanted to highlight the changes: In Section 13.1, “authorized carriers” have been added as an indemnified party.”

Unfortunately there’s no details on who these “authorized carriers” actually are. Currently there’s only one carrier who has carrier billing options and it’s T-Mobile in the USA. Hopefully when the list gets officially announced it will include some Canadian carriers (most likely only Rogers, Bell and TELUS). Just remember that paid apps Android Market took it’s sweet time coming to Canada too, long after the first Android devices landed Canada.

Source: Android Developers Blog
Via: AndroidGuys

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Discussion

3 comments for “Android Market to have “new payment options” with “authorized carriers””

  1. Oh joy! I’d get to give EVEN MORE money to the highway robbers (I mean Rogers, sorry). No thanks, I’ll stick with the Google checkout option. Let’s hope this doesn’t come to Canada, just another way for them to rip us off.

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    Posted by Paul | July 25, 2010, 4:12 pm
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  2. Ya I’d rather keep my money going directly to the devs instead of rogers, then to the devs.

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    Posted by Mactheburger | July 25, 2010, 6:43 pm
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  3. Dumb article, what are we thinking, Ian, that Rogers/Bell is just going to hand over money to the developers for free? Nothing’s free — the means we pay more. Unless the Android market becomes a “free for all” with a fixed monthly fee, however, analyzing what T-mobile is doing in the US will answer that.

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    Posted by Ray | July 25, 2010, 8:07 pm
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