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Google Android Market now has paid apps.

Under: Google Android, Phone Software
Date: February 21st, 2009

We all know it was coming, Google said so a while ago that the Google Android Market would begin to accept paid applications for Android users, and now it’s official.

The Android Market now contains paid applications, so if you have received the latest update to the T-Mobile G1 update RC33, you should be able to see them.

Whether paid application arriving at the Android Market will make for better quality applications remains to be see, but it hasn’t done Apple’s iTunes App Store any harm. So if you are a G1er and download a few paid Android apps let us know how it goes.

Source – BGR

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Jim Clements
Paid apps for the T-Mobile G1 are being stored in special folders and can not be backed up on the SD card … just the same as pre-loaded apps.
So are we to assume that Google is maintaining these special folders in the “cloud” somewhere so they can be reinstalled in the event your phone is damaged/lost/stolen … ???
This would also go to indicate that Google will NEVER allow these apps to be installed and run from the SDCard… (for a non-rooted phone) …
It might still be possible to store your free apps and third-party apps on the SDCard and run them from there to help with the memory issue … Doesn’t sound like this is a likely senario that Google will follow …
For me this is serious limit to the future value of the G1…
It makes no sense to fatally limit/cripple the phone to this degree.
*IF* this does turn out to be the case then it will finish my brief affair with Android. I like the platform but the current handsets do not have enough internal storage to be considered a practical device for applications that in all eventuality will become more space demanding.
If in the future, handsets start to appear with 8GB internal then I may consider returning but as it is, I will not be buying any applications until the storage situation is sorted. And I will not invest in another Android handset either.
This is a serious development to all the software developers until a suitable platform appears….