Developer Android Phones Barred From Access Of Paid Apps
Developers who joined the Android developer program and bought the $400 unlocked developer T-Mobile G1 phone from Google discovered that they are not allowed to access paid Android Marketplace apps.
The reason Google gave was that ‘these phones give developers of handset full permissions to all aspects of the device, including the ability to install a modified version of the Android Open Source Project. We aren’t distributing copy protected applications to these phones in order to minimize unauthorized copy of the applications’.
One Android developer explains more technically that Google copy protect apps by downloading them to a restricted folder but for unlocked phones, the folder isn’t protected. However a developer could return the original for a refund since the Android Market allows refunds within 24 hours of purchase.
Source: Gizmodo
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