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Priced applications are currently only available to users in the following countries:
- Australia
- Austria
- France
- Germany
- Italy
- Japan
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
- Spain
- Switzerland
- United Kingdom
- United States
Notice any obvious omissions?
On reading this list a big flashing light of Obviousness went up and here is my guess, and I'll bet I'm right: Rogers.ca likely does not like the idea of allowing other people to make money from 'their' phones, and thus there are no 'paid' applications in the Android Market. Not, at least, until they 'negotiate' some deal whereby Rogers gets a cut of the pie. This is the same basic reason why Bell dis-allows Skype from purchasing bulk Canadian telephone numbers to allow Skype subscribers the incoming call feature, thereby ensuring that none of their subscribers will have any option to dump their landline in favour of a free USB Skype phone.
I wondered why this great new phone was only optioned to run largely quite amateur software, although much of it is still better than the RIM proprietary, nonetheless, a lot of it appears written by students, by kids, miminally functional just to get their name in the game. Naive fool that I am, I thought, "oh, that's just because the Android is 'new' and it always takes a while before people really find their way around any new computing platform." but that's not true, is it. Android 2.0 may be new and uncharted, but we Canadians only get the dregs from the wealthy industrial nations: Our 'latest' Android is only 1.6, maybe even 1.5.
Oh well ... patience is a virtue!
Our life has no end in just the way in which our visual field has no limits.
Our life has no end in just the way in which our visual field has no limits.
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