Android Sales Figures After Placing 3rd in the Android Developer Challenge 2

Wow, that's a huge improvement for Android Market sales figures in general. Just 3 months ago a top 5 app was getting $64/day <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=796685" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=796685</a> and now #14 in travel is getting as much as $156.

Is it just me or does Google not promote these apps at all from within the Android Market itself? I'm looking for some menu option or banner that says "Check out these great apps", and am not seeing one.

Android Market sales will increase when they offer paid apps in more countries. I'm from Canada, and if I ever decide to get an Android device, I can't purchase apps from the market. What's up with that?

The standard in ADC2 is still a mix between the semi-professional and pro apps.<p>Eg, Speed Forge, which won one of the games awards, is a racing game that doesn't have a pause option. Visit the menu and you just lost the race. Totemo, on the other hand, also won an award, and is incredibly slick.<p>Hoccer is cool and innovative (throwing and catching data physically), Car Finder is, AFAICT, the inbuilt maps activity with a bookmark function.<p>I'd love to see the figures for the Totemos and Hoccers of the Android world rather than the Speed Forge and Car Finders.