Oh, really? That's the first I have heard of Apple using geographical location to disable features, rather than using the location that issued the credit card linked to the account.

Come to think of it, last year in Shanghai, I did buy a GPS map app for iPhone using my US app store account... is this something new (and lame) that Apple is doing, or did you mean something different?

EDIT: Oops, sorry, I guess I should have read your comment far enough to get to the second word where you clearly indicated you are talking about Android... :-p