Patience: Paid Applications Rollout Is Phased
Last Friday, we enabled developers to upload priced apps and saw a flurry of activity in the days that followed. Today, it is my pleasure to let you know that we have begun the phased rollout of priced applications to T-Mobile G1 users in the US. Once the service is enabled on their devices, T-Mobile G1 users will be able to see the priced apps immediately without the need to reboot. For more details on this update to Android Market, please see last week’s blogpost.
So basically, T-Mobile has to send an update to your device which incorporates the Paid Market elements. Shortly before I saw Paid Apps I was getting loading errors in the Market place. There is no telling how long it will take for all American G1 owners to get the Paid Apps but be patient… they ARE coming and it ISN’T some big conspiracy as to why some get some and others don’t. Unless… eh nevermind… (kidding)
By the way it would be nice to have a method of sorting by price or searching by price or viewing only free apps… or something along those lines. Hopefully that will come at some point but who knows – maybe it is wishful thinking that is an unneccessary feature. Just sayin.