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Google blocking paid Market apps from Dev Phone 1 users
Engadget —
... The Dev Phone 1 is good for many things that the stock G1 is not -- hardcore geek street cred, developing Android apps, exercising your 1337est hacking skills -- but one thing it's not good for is buying and enjoying paid apps out of the Android ...
Unlocked Developer G1 Banned From Accessing Paid Apps [Android]
Gizmodo —
Anyone who bought the $400 unlocked developer G1 is in for a nasty surprise: Google, citing piracy concerns, won't allow those handsets to access paid Marketplace apps. The problem lies in the phone's full software permissions. Most Android phones download paid content to a private, hidden apps folder, inaccessible to the user. Thing is, as is stands, this normally inaccessible folder is accessible on the dev phones. Not only does this let people flat out copy and redistribute apps—it enables a sort of app laundering scam, in which someone ...
Dev Phone 1 denied access to paid apps on Android Market?
Phones Review —
... Google Android Market, which is probably due to the discovery by users that rooted handsets have access to hidden folders that store the applications.
This could mean apps could be pirated with ease so Google has disabled access for the Dev Phone 1. Although as these same developers probably have their own apps in the Android Market, maybe Google has acted wrongly in disabling paid apps for owners of the Dev Phone 1…we shall see.
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Source – macworld
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Usuários de G1s desbloqueados não podem comprar aplicativos pagos no Android Market
MacMagazine —
... no aparelho sem que o Google saiba.
Como sempre, limitar esse tipo de coisa é pedir para que comece uma nova briga de gato e rato, afinal, o G1 desbloqueado não sai por menos de US$400 e impedir o seu uso total certamente não agradará nem um pouco aos desenvolvedores. Vindo de uma empresa que promove abertura e transparência toda hora, espera-se que ela volte atrás da decisão logo.
A determinação foi aplicada recentemente nos termos de uso do Android, segundo a Macworld. ...
Google blocks unlocked G1s from downloading for-pay applications, upsets developers
CrunchGear —
Looks like Google is now preventing anyone with an unlocked G1 from downloading for-pay applications from the Android Market. Google says this is to prevent piracy (but only in the most abstract sense, in my [worthless] opinion), but some developers don’t like the idea. Welcome to the Situation Room, I’m Wolf Blitzer.
Google just implemented this ban a few days ago. In the company’s world, it was done to prevent someone from using an unlocked phone from buying a for-pay application, returning it (Google allows full refund ...
No paid Android Market apps for Google Dev Phone 1 owners!
IntoMobile - Cell Phone News, Information, and Analysis —
... simply transferring the application back to the Dev Phone 1.
Whatever the case, it seems the Google Dev Phone 1 is being selectively barred from premium Android Market apps. “This is a big problem for everyone who has a Dev phone,”says oscillik. “Assuming that we’re pirates is very offensive.”
Indeed.
Of course, you can unlock your T-Mobile G1’s file-system with a bit of hackery, but don’t tell Google.
[Via: Macworld]
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