Let There Be Monetization: Android's In-App Billing Is Out to Consumers

In a move that may make Android a financially viable platform for scores of developers, Google said that in app billing is finally out to consumers.

It’s taken months of waiting, but this will let Android developers finally embrace what iOS developers have been shifting to over the last several months: free games that monetize with in app purchases of virtual goods. More than half of iOS’s top 25 grossing games are now free and make money off selling virtual currency and goods.

Now Android developers, who up until this date have mostly been reliant upon advertising, will have a chance to do the same.