Last night, I taught an intro class on Android. I got the question that I always tend to get: How do you make money with Android apps? Thanks to a post from FierceMobileContent, I now have a better answer than the Android Market.

Multiple new Android app markets are being created with better options for developers to get paid for the apps To quote the post from FierceMobileContent,

Developers in only nine countries are presently able to offer paid apps via Android Market–moreover, paid apps are available in only 14 of the 46 countries that the storefront serves. On top of that, consumers must register for a Google Checkout account in order to download paid Android applications, except in locations where operator billing is available.

Developers can now try other options including Amazon’s upcoming apps store and Verizon’s V-Cast store with billing directly to the customer’s phone bill.

Every other news article on the iPhone Apps Store includes a mention of how Apple is the ogre that controls who can pass over their bridge to the iPhone users. This monopoly is always compared to the other famous tech monopoly, Microsoft and its Windows product. The latest unhappy iPhone App Store developer is none other than Google.

On one hand, it is bizarre that a big company like Google cannot get their press releases and software releases synch up. On a side note, they did have a misfire on their Chrome browser as well. But it was not due to the delay of a competitor but by the efficiency of snail mail in Europe and the lack of a holiday. (Consider the irony: snail mail throwing of a Internet giant and the lack of a holiday in Europe compared to the U.S.)

On the other hand, it is nice to know that all developers, big and small, will be made to dance to Apple’s unknown App Store rules and policies.