Google opens Android store to paid apps

13.02.2009

"It never really materialized as a threat to PayPal," Sterling said.

As a Web-based service, Checkout is fairly straightforward, but it will be critical for Google to make it easy for Android phone users to start using it, he said. Apple signs up iPhone users for its iTunes store as part of the activation process for the handset.

"If (Google) blows this part of it, then developers will be upset, and (Android) will be a less successful platform overall," Sterling said.