[...] customers with Android 1.6 phones (G1 and myTouch 3G) began receiving a silent update which enabled carrier billing for paid apps and added a new section for T-Mobile suggested [...]

[...] New Android Market has carrier specific payment options [...]

hey those screen grabs look familiar ;-) I guess I should note that I was using cyanogenmod 4.2.8 as well when I got the update. Also, despite what the article says you still need a google checkout account, google just passes the bill to tmobile. I wonder if they give tmobile a percentage.

[...] como vemos en androidandme, la compañía T-Mobile está mandando una actualización del sistema android a todos los [...]

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id rather have the google check out process for apps. tmobile already has a place in the market its called app pack

all this seems to do is give people a place to go to get their carriers apps in one place.

I don’t like this, I trust t-mobile with it but giving carriers this much control over the market makes me scared of what verizon will do. I’m not saying they’ll raise app prices so that they can have a cut, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they buried the apps of individual developers while pushing their own overpriced apps.

In case you were wondering, the update is 100% unprompted, and is even going to rooted phones. I’m running CyanogenMod 4.2.8, and I went into the Market and saw it there.

The smiling message notification icon is part of CyanogenMod 4.2.8, ported from Eclair. I left it in the notification bar to prove it was indeed a rooted G1.

Screens: http://bit.ly/5KcXe5
http://bit.ly/6SA9F4
http://bit.ly/901r5S

The market don’t work no more since the invisible update