日前，据市场调研公司Distimo透露，谷歌Android应用商店新增13个支持付费应用的国家或地区，包括阿根庭、比利时、巴西、芬兰、香港、以色列、墨西哥、波兰、罗马尼亚、俄罗斯、斯洛伐克、新加坡和南非，截止目前Android应用商店付费应用列表上的国家总共27个。

Android Market adds 13 territories

这些地区并非Android应用商店的新主顾，只是这次升格成为付费应用国家。谷歌应用商店目前已在48个国家运营，另外21个国家仍仅支持免费应用。

但Distimo表示仍未掌握详细情况，因此无从获知用户究竟是否可以在这些市场地区买到Android应用，开发商也仍在观望中，并未明确表态是否将面向这些市场投放应用。

Distimo公司的联合创始人文森特·霍斯特德（Vincent Hoogsteder）表示，Android应用商店的付费应用列表尚未调整，名单上仍然是原来的14个国家和地区，但相信该列表很快就会更新。

不管怎么说，这一举动表明谷歌确实在进步，但Android应用商店仍需再接再厉，尤其要提防那些手机运营商应用商店的奋力追击。（本文为游戏邦/gamerboom.com编译）

Google adds 13 new territories to Android Market’s paid apps roster

Includes Brazil, Russia and Poland

With almost no fanfare, Google has added 13 new countries to the line up of territories that support paid apps on the Android Market.

Spotted by Distimo, the new markets consist of Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Finland, Hong Kong, Israel, Mexico, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Singapore and South Africa, bringing the full tally to 27, when combined with those already on the paid roster.

Such territories aren’t newcomers to the Android Market fold, however. Rather, they’ve simply been upgraded.

Google’s marketplace now operates in 48 countries in total, although the other 21 are still restricted to the store’s line up of free titles.

To play or not to play

Still the current situation remains somewhat confused,

Although these new 13 nations now have access to the details of paid apps on Android Market, Distimo isn’t sure whether users can actually buy them, mainly because developers don’t yet seem to have been given the option to select the new territories as distribution options.

“It is not completely clear if Google has enabled consumers to actually purchase apps from the Market already,” co-founder Vincent Hoogsteder says on the firm’s blog.

“When publishing a paid application, Android Market still lists the 14 countries where paid content was already available. This is likely to change very soon.”

Still, it’s another small move in the right direction, and something Google will have to speed up if it expects the Android Market to compete with other emerging mobile distribution channels, especially those being offered by carriers. （source:pocketgamer）