This is fairly huge. Embedded movie rentals (with offline downloading), book purchases, etc. This is a significant feature launch seemingly without a lot of fanfare. Perhaps I missed the early hype on this?
I hope for once 'select countries' means Canada. Please please, we want to be equal mobile web citizens!
The movie rentals were announced at IO, the book purchases were already there (just not Market integrated), and the redesign was shown off as well (though not at the keynote). The new stuff is more of a feature sync with 3.1 than anything else.
Strange but not unexpected. Google Music doesn't work with my phone however it does attempt to replace the stock Music app by adding a second app called the exact same thing and anytime I try to play a music file it tries to load the Google Music app that doesn't work.
http://i.imgur.com/B9zb1.jpg
(and no I can't check that box to choose the default action. It doesn't work)
This is the type of stuff Google really has to sort out. It's getting ridiculous.
Last I checked the Video app only worked for the Xoom and has not yet started rolling out for any other device. Expect it to support the Nexus S once the new Market starts rolling out.
how do you know, do you have access to it yet ? Currently in its current implementation it matches the ios app store client. I actually think the client on android is better than the iphone appstore. Comparing the website vs itunes app store is a different argument.
the search algorithm in the android market is horrible. its been broken for almost two weeks now. when trying to find an app, alot of the results are returning unrelated results.
doing exact searches of apps which should show up first right now is a huge FAIL
I hope for once 'select countries' means Canada. Please please, we want to be equal mobile web citizens!