Talk:Android Market

Integration with Android (operating system)

I think it would be better if this article was integrated with the main Android (operating system) page. Does anyone else agree? Originalwana (talk) 20:49, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

For what reasons do you think it would be better to merge this into Android (operating system)? Note that App Store and iPhone OS are also separate articles. I think this article needs some work done on it, but I don't think it should be merged with Android (operating system). The Android Market is quite different from the rest of the OS in that it is proprietary software as well as a service provided by Google. - James Foster (talk) 05:57, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

It was just that its basically a stub and I thought it would be more useful to readers if it were on the Android OS page. I take your point about App store and iphone OS though so I agree it should be kept as a separate page.Originalwana (talk) 17:25, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

Country availability

The paid apps are available in Brazil as of today, Oct 5. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.5.214.160 (talk) 22:56, 5 October 2010 (UTC)

Number of apps

Do anyone know where to find out how many apps are available? Would be interesting to know, to compare it to the other app stores. --Anderssl (talk) 22:58, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

this what you want

• List of digital distribution platforms for mobile devices

There are some new numbers which may be included into the article: --Ahochsteger

• http://www.research2guidance.com/android-market-reaches-half-a-million-successful-submissions/
• http://www.rethink-wireless.com/2011/10/25/android-market-downloads-appe-store.htm — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ahochsteger (talk • contribs) 14:58, 4 December 2011 (UTC)

Paradox

• In the introduction: "An app called "Market" is preinstalled on all Android devices"
• Under criticism: "Only certain Android devices come with Market application." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.50.192.118 (talk) 15:42, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
• Yes I can confirm that only certain Android devices come with Market installed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 125.238.224.90 (talk) 19:20, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

• For those devices which don't have the market preinstalled can one add it, or access the website to install apps from the market? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mavhc (talk • contribs) 22:30, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
  • You cannot add the app market to a device that doesn't come with it. The App Market is a separate product than Android, and it only comes on Google approved devices. -- TomXP411^[Talk] 23:29, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
    • We need to clarify what the requirements are to get the Google Android Market on the device. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.206.74.142 (talk) 23:06, 12 November 2010 (UTC)
      • In an article on another wiki (which I'm not planning to cite), I'm collecting sources for reasons behind the unavailability of Android Market on Archos devices and other devices that aren't telephones. Here are some sources to check: Android Devices Crave Google’s Attention by Priya Ganapati; Google Is Missing an Android Opportunity on Non-smartphones by Kevin C. Tofel; and Google: 'Android not optimised for tablets' by Gareth Beavis. --Damian Yerrick (talk | stalk) 01:59, 24 December 2010 (UTC)
        • Please see the new section "Market Application restrictions" which includes references. Dcxf (talk) 23:20, 14 May 2011 (UTC)

Non-free apps limited to certain countries

I can confirm that non-free and free apps are available in the US with AT&T and only free apps are available in Poland with Orange. Travelling back and forth between EU and US, this is pretty annoying. I was able to determine that it is not using IP geolocation, because VPNing to a server in the US and connecting to the market still serves up free-only. I disabled my GPS and tried without luck. This plus the way profits are distributed lead me to believe that it is SIM based, so I put in my AT&T SIM while in Poland, and it worked. The method used for blocking non-free items in the store should be in the article. -- StefanRusek —Preceding undated comment added 03:22, 15 February 2010 (UTC).

It is based on the country-code in your SIM-chip. If you insert an SIM-Chip from the US (or Germany, Austria, etc.), you can access paid apps just fine (i.e. using WLAN). Disabling data-roaming is advised due to its costs. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 186.110.8.50 (talk) 16:19, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

Finland

I notice Finland is not on the list, I encourage some other more enthusiastic wikipedian update the country list ;) 76.166.175.12 (talk) 15:10, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

Norwegians can now buy apps

Norwegians can now buy apps, I hope someone more experienced will change this —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.89.25.218 (talk) 14:40, 9 October 2010 (UTC)

New photo?

I don't want to go and mess up the article by trying to mess with the photo, but I think it might be better to place a screenshot of the standard Android Market as the photo, instead of the one shown. The screenshot shown is of the Android Market as per certain Sprint phones (I know my HTC Evo has this version), but this is not the version that is shown on my HTC Aria, as well as most phones that I've seen (very recently was phone shopping, so I've had a look at quite a few). SudoGhost (talk) 19:25, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

Just checked with my friend's Verizon phone, and his looks like this as well. I believe that the current picture is what the Market looks like in AndroidOS 2.2+. --Amlz (talk) 21:39, 30 March 2011 (UTC)

Spanish MVNOs

Does anyone have a more substantial source to support problems with priced apps on Spain's MVNOs than Android's help forum? If not, I'd like to remove this bit of trailing information. --Amlz (talk) 21:45, 30 March 2011 (UTC)

Paid app support - big update

there are many(99) new countries now supported. see here:
https://market.android.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=143779
http://www.google.com/support/androidmarket/developer/bin/answer.py?&answer=138294 84.229.82.80 (talk) 20:58, 11 May 2011 (UTC)

I think we should remove the list, we are not going to list all the 131 countries, it's going to be a bit too long --Zouzzou (talk) 08:12, 12 May 2011 (UTC)

Newest android market

The info box states that the most recent version is 2.3.6, but the picture captioned "current market app" is 3.0.26 (according to the pictures summary). The picture should match the version listed in the info box. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.240.33.194 (talk) 22:57, 24 July 2011 (UTC)

Changed the version in infobox with a new link to the Official Android Developers Blog. --Zouzzou (talk) 00:13, 25 July 2011 (UTC)

The 600,000 apps and 10 billions

look on the 3 ref link ,the statics i think is it ,there is only 6.9 billions downloads ,and 365~ thousands. i think the sources of 10 billions and 600 thousands are fake. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.109.122.57 (talk) 18:02, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

Not sure which ref you were talking about, but I updated the reference for 10 billion downloads and removed the Androlib ref for 600,000 apps. Dcxf (talk) 21:09, 11 December 2011 (UTC)

There is always a high debate on how many apps there are in the Market. But just removing the 600,000 apps and leave the cell for the numbers for Dec 2011 empty or giving another source in the box information, which is yet just another vague estimate, is no progress either. Hence I have exchanged it with a somewhat more precise source. Ekhcsub (talk) 18 December 2011 —Preceding undated comment added 18:46, 18 December 2011 (UTC).

Thanks for finding the Distimo reference, the problem with it is that it isn't explicitly timestamped. It is sourced from a report that costs 699 Euros to buy, but apparently covers the period January-November 2011, according to this blog post [1], so I think that's the availability figure for November, not December? Dcxf (talk) 07:29, 22 December 2011 (UTC)

Article is unclear on web market push

This does not indicate in simple terms that an app you download on the Android Market website is pushed directly through the device: In February 2011 Google introduced a web client that provides access to Android Market via PC. Apps requested through the Android Market web page are downloaded and installed on a registered Android device.[9] 222.165.253.133 (talk) 12:49, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

Please don't use Androlib statistics

The Androlib site is not a good source for Android Market statistics. It doesn't meet Wikipedia's reliable sources criteria, lacking editorial oversight and a reputation for accuracy and fact-checking, and because it's a dynamically generated page it is not possible to link to a snapshot of the page at a particular date.

The number of applications that it reports is the total number applications that have ever been published, not the number of applications that are available, so it includes many old apps that have long since disappeared. This is made clear on the Androlib blog here: [2]. Androlib's count of the number of available applications is shown on this page in a footnote to the "Distribution of free and paid apps in Android Market" graph [3] but again this is not suitable as a source for a WP article. Dcxf (talk) 19:10, 17 December 2011 (UTC)

Merging with Google Play

This article is being merged with Google Play. I don't know if all the content here can be merged there (this article + Google Music + Movies + Books = too much content), so I propose this article to be kept at least for a few days while things are sorted out. Please leave further comments at Google Play. --SF007 (talk) 21:01, 6 March 2012 (UTC)

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