It's all in the number of devices out there. As the number of devices goes up so should the sales.
Using google checkout is just plain silly though, buying an application for a phone for the most part would be 'impulse' buys, in which case you want to remove any possible barrier. That's good business sense anyway but for this kind of product it is an absolute must.
> It's all in the number of devices out there. As the number of devices goes up so should the sales.
Actually I disagree. The Android marketplace isn't compulsory so many people would be getting their apps from other sources. It's kind of like comparing the the approval rating of the leaders of North Korea with that of the US. Before the iPhone came along nobody would have thought of using a centralised 'app store' as the measure of a platform's strength.
I don't have an Apple account, but I do have a Google Checkout account. That means it's much easier for me to buy an Android app than an iPhone app; and indeed... I have bought a few Android apps.
Sales are probably low because only the very very early adopters are using Android right now. When the iPhone was at this level of market penetration, there was no such thing as the App Store.
Using google checkout is just plain silly though, buying an application for a phone for the most part would be 'impulse' buys, in which case you want to remove any possible barrier. That's good business sense anyway but for this kind of product it is an absolute must.