Android google apps expands

With Android quickly approaching the 100,000 apps mark, Google has opened up its successful Android Market and is now taking paid-app submissions from 29 countries.

Until now, only apps from nine countries could be purchased from the Android Market, and then it was only to the 14 countries which were allowed paid-for apps. But that’s all changed, with Google now allowing developers of the 29 eligible nations (listed below) to submit their apps, with a chance of selling them in the now, 32-strong list of approved countries.

As with anything Android or app related – the UAE isn’t even a mention, in fact, not one Middle Eastern nation has been named (whether they ban the Android Market or not) on the approved list.

C’mon Google – get a move on.

Here are the 20 new countries that are now allowed to sell apps:

• Argentina
• Australia
• Belgium
• Brazil
• Canada
• Denmark
• Finland
• Hong Kong
• Ireland
• Israel
• Mexico
• New Zealand
• Norway
• Portugal
• Russia
• Singapore
• South Korea
• Sweden
• Switzerland
• Taiwan

And, here are the 18 new countries that will soon be able to buy them:

• Argentina
• Belgium
• Brazil
• Czech Republic
• Denmark
• Finland
• Hong Kong
• India
• Ireland
• Israel
• Mexico
• Norway
• Poland
• Portugal
• Russia
• Singapore
• Sweden
• Taiwan