Google Play (what used to be known as the Android Market until the re-branding that occurred earlier this year) has just given the opportunities for app developers from four new countries to upload and sell their designed apps through the official Android marketplace.
App developers can now create a new developer account, submit their apps and price them with any available currency including their own local currency. Payments will be transferred to their local bank accounts. There is the option to receive payments directly in their own local currency.
App developers from Mexico and Israel who may have gone around the system before by utilizing AdSense may have to create an entirely new App Developer account for them to do so. This is because Mexico and Israel were already allowed to sell apps on Google Play before yet they had to go through an AdSense merchant to get their products available in the market and for them to receive their payments. Now they can publish and get paid directly yet, as mentioned, they may need to create a new developer account.
All of these new changes, including the integration of the Android Market with Google Music, is a part of the steps Google is taking to slowly step away from ad-revenue exclusive strategies that they focused heavily in the past and move towards the paid content heavy strategy of the new unified platform Google has implemented.
This allows users and developers to earn directly for the apps they create without having to go through the lengthy online advertisement process that Google once promoted to their followers.
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