Google Dev Phone 1 Banned From Paid Apps

Posted by timothy on Friday February 27, 2009 @12:51AM from the please-contradict-this-claim dept.

ScrewMaster points out an short article according to which purchasers of the G1 Android phone's developer-oriented variant will be out of luck if they want to buy apps from Google's application store. "Google is not going to allow programmers who have purchased the Dev Phone 1 to purchase paid apps from the Android Market. I just signed up as a G1 developer, and was about to plunk down the $399 for a Dev Phone 1, but now I'm going to have to think about it. I know that Google is interested in preventing (cough) 'piracy,' but does this seem like the right way to go? I know the Dev Phone 1 is primarily a developer's tool, but I would like to actually use the thing, and not have to spend another $180 from T-Mobile for a regular G1 just for the privilege of buying software." I hope this isn't true; the unlocked G1 looked like a pretty cool phone, especially (being unlocked) for travel to countries where pre-paid SIM cards are the norm.

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Oh for fuck's sake by Anonymous Coward · 2009-02-27 01:18 · Score: -1, Troll

Grow up and get a job so you can fucking pay for software that's for sale. If FOSS was so great, you could stick to using only FOSS without having to steal or (heaven forbid!) pay for non-FOSS. What? You can't because the proprietary shit is too good? BOO FUCKING HOO. Loser.