Angelman wrote:
I don't suppose you can get the Android market to work in the same way as Steam in that you can buy stuff and then install at your leisure at a later date? I was hoping to buy Minecraft but it's not compatible with my current phone.
As Bamba has already said, your main hurdle here is being able to buy it in the first place. It's certainly a bit annoying when an offer comes along for something you might want to use in the future, but you don't have a device that can run it at the moment. I wonder how many people take advantage of the offers on iTunes for apps that they might want to run when they get an iPad, or upgrade their phone (assuming that iTunes lets buy stuff without any issue). Even worse is when an app says it's incompatible, but if you install it through other means, you find it works perfectly well. Sometimes it's like Google doesn't want your money (or doesn't want the devs to get theirs).
Anyway, if you can get it installed, then it's yours to keep and install on any Android devices you're signed into (assuming they're compatible), so you'll just have to work out how to actually buy it (and if what Pupil has said about automatic refunds, you might have to play it a bit as well).
I think your options are:
1. Steal it. It's only 10p anyway, and they're not letting you buy it, so what else are you supposed to do?
2. Get someone else to buy it, and send you the apk. This is a rubbish idea, as they'd have to send you a new file when it was updated (and keep it installed on their phone so they'd know it had been updated). Technically, this is the same as 1.
3. I have no idea if this would actually work, but, find someone with a compatible device, get them to add your account onto the phone, and then buy the app on their phone.
4. Same as 3, but I'm assuming once you've added your account to another device, it would be listed on the market website as one of your devices, so you could buy it from there (although if you need to play it to prevent it from being automatically refunded, you may as well just do 3).
5. Wait until you get a compatible device and see if you want to pay whatever the going rate is for it then (I realise this isn't very helpful).
But yeah, the market really does need an "I don't care if it's incompatible, I just want to give you my money" button.