Google will soon allow all the developers out there to sell applications for its Android cell phone operating system. They are planning to do so in the upcoming week in the United States. This move will also allow Google to move a step ahead in the world of mobile world as well.
A lot of developers like Electronic Arts Inc are keen enough to enhance and extend their sales of mobile phone games to the Android Market, that has till now was limited to free applications only.
Google said in a statement on Friday that “consumers will have to pay for the applications via its Google Checkout payment product.”
“The availability of applications that run on a particular smartphone are important to define and distinguish the product,” said analyst Rob Enderle of the Enderle Group. “It’s what’s providing that extra value and getting people into the stores,” he said.
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