For those of you who have been following the official @AndroidDev twitter account, you may have already spotted a sneaky tweet yesterday, which urged developers to check their email inboxes.Within the email received was some exciting news: Google will be bringing access to paid applications to more countries. They have not yet determined when and where this will be taking place though as of yet. Considering the fact that the Android market is only available in 14 countries (which are listed below), increasing that number will cause a dramatic improvement for the company. However, when you look at how many countries the iTunes App Store is available in (90 countries), there is still a lot of ground to be made before catching up to Apple. The email sent out is also reprinted and can be found below as well:

Current Android Paid Market Support

• Australia
• Austria
• Canada
• France
• Germany
• Italy
• Japan
• Netherlands
• New Zealand
• South Korea
• Spain
• Switzerland
• United Kingdom
• United States

Google’s Announcement To Developers

Hello,

We’re writing to inform you about some changes to Android Market that require your attention.

Over the next few weeks, we’ll be adding paid apps support for additional countries.  If you have selected to publish your paid apps to all locations and intend to support all new locations as we expand the number of supported countries for paid apps, you don’t have to do anything.  If you have selected to publish your paid apps to all locations but intend to only target the currently supported 14 countries, please update your location selections to target these specific countries.

Please look for follow-up emails when we introduce paid apps support for specific additional countries in the coming weeks.  At that time, you’ll have the option to target these specific countries.

Thanks, and we look forward to continue working with you on Android Market.

Sincerely,
The Android Market Team

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Source: Official Google E-mail

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