{"id":425,"date":"2012-03-16T18:04:31","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T18:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=425"},"modified":"2018-07-10T08:16:54","modified_gmt":"2018-07-10T08:16:54","slug":"425","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/425\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Payments on Android Market Missed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_426\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-426\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-426\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/google-wallet.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"60\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-426\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some European developers have complained at tardy payments by Google.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">MARCH 16, 2012 \u25cf Many European software developers claimed Google missed its March payment of proceeds from Android Market content purchases. The developers went to Google&#8217;s forums to vent their ire as they claim Google offers no avenue for direct contact\u00a0 between itself and developers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>Impact: A big issue with Android is the lack of a company that has a controlling interest in the platform.\u00a0 With the iOS Apple both makes the hardware and controls the delivery of applications.\u00a0 With Android there are many hardware devices from different manufacturers and Google simply offers a marketplace for applications, Google Play.\u00a0 In theory this allows for Android to be more open than iOS.\u00a0 However, in practice it has created major issues with fragmentation.\u00a0 The idea is that Google can streamline and organize the platform by offering a cohesive marketplace. Right now many developers are frustrated with Android because sales are simply not as strong as they should be given the installed base and compared with iOS.\u00a0 For Google Play to really earn the 30% commission it charges developers, Google needs to do a better job all around and developer support is a crucial place to start.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MARCH 16, 2012 \u25cf Many European software developers claimed Google missed its March payment of proceeds from Android Market content purchases. The developers went to Google&#8217;s forums to vent their ire as they claim Google offers no avenue for direct contact\u00a0 between itself and developers. Impact: A big issue with Android is the lack of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[40,78],"tags":[88,265,389],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16451,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions\/16451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}