Monday 24 September 2012
Google allows developers from India to sell paid apps on Play store
Posted on 02:42 by Maria Scott
App developers in India can now also sell paid apps on Google's Play
Store. Google recently included India in the list of the countries that
may register as Google Checkout merchants and sell paid applications.
Prior to this, Indian app developers were only allowed to distribute
free apps on Google's app store.
The inclusion of India comes months after Google
added countries such as Czech Republic, Israel, Poland and Mexico in
that list. With addition of India, there are now 31 countries from where
developers are allowed to sell paid apps.
Google has also listed a few pointers for developers looking to post a paid app on Play store,
such as "Google Checkout account which you need to link to your Google
Play developer account can only be linked once from within the developer
account interface". Moreover, once accounts are linked, they cannot be
removed, changed or updated. If you need to do this, you will have to
sign up for a new developer account by paying the fee of $25 US. This is
supposed to allow developers to launch paid apps, include in-app
purchases and also launch a paid ad-free version for their ad-supported
apps. Find out more here.
Google's move could provide a huge
impetus to its app store, which according to a recent estimate has about
600,000 Android apps. As Android Police in its report points out
“this is a big deal. Not only because India is the second-most populous
nation on earth, but because mobile technology and software development
have absolutely exploded there. Android is absolutely dominating the
country thanks to budget handsets.”
Also, it would help the Indian
developers make more money. So far the developers depended on
advertisements as s source for revenue. We recently saw Microsoft
attempting to tap the growing app developers industry in India for its
latest Windows Phone 8 platform. Microsoft's coding festival held in
Bangalore got itself into the Guinness Book of World Records for the maximum number of developers coding for a single event at a common location.
Source: http://www.thinkdigit.com/Apps/Google-allows-developers-from-India-to-sell_10849.html
Source: http://www.thinkdigit.com/Apps/Google-allows-developers-from-India-to-sell_10849.html
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