Android Market Europe

Apparently, Android Market will be available for consumers and developers in Europe, soon. Just got this E-Mail.

Hello,

I’m writing to let you know that priced apps are now available to users in Germany and Austria. You can target your priced apps to these users by selecting the “Germany,” “Austria,” or “All Current and Future Countries with Payment” location options in the publisher website at http://market.android.com/publish. If you select “All Current and Future Countries with Payment,” then your priced apps will automatically appear to users in all countries where priced apps are available.

Also, I am pleased to let you know that free applications will become available in Italy over the next few weeks. Italy will join the other countries where users currently can download free applications: US, UK, Germany, France, Austria, Netherlands, Czech Republic, Poland, Australia, and Singapore. You can make your free apps available to Italian users by selecting “All Current and Future Locations”. We will add the option to target these countries individually when we add the ability to add French and Italian application descriptions in the publisher website, which we expect to be complete in the coming weeks.

Finally, I want to let you know that we are hard at work to enable developers in Germany, Austria, Netherlands, France, and Spain to offer priced applications in the coming weeks. Once merchant support for priced apps are live in these countries, we will announce our plans for launching support for developers in additional geographies.

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

Eric Chu,
Android Market

Google, Inc.
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Mountain View, CA  94043