The thing about Google Checkout is that it's more of a "credit card processor" than the merchant. They consider the developer as a merchant (maybe because Googl

The thing about Google Checkout is that it's more of a "credit card processor" than the merchant. They consider the developer as a merchant (maybe because Google might have first designed Google Checkout to be payment processor, like Paypal) which basically makes transfer of goods between a customer vs. developer, as opposed to customer vs. Play store. Aside the argument if it's good or bad, it seems to be consistent with that notion -- if Google is considering Google Play to be more of a promotion service with payment processing built-in, as opposed to curated content store.