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dcjoedogv2Jan 5, 2011
no thanks, one app store is enough for me. it works, and that's pretty much the best thing you can say about a product.
weirddemonJan 5, 2011
Another app store will help make Google's Android Market better. In theory anyway.
Competition breeds innovation.
dcjoedogv2Jan 5, 2011
or confusion about which is the official app store for android
nascenttJan 6, 2011
I'm guessing the only one that has an app icon on the phone by default is the official one.
ronnisrJan 7, 2011
Unless it's a carrier or manufacturer app-store :)
sevenvtJan 6, 2011
it will probably be hard to mistake as it will most likely be downloaded directly from the android market...
weirddemonJan 6, 2011
You're stretching now.
algraveJan 6, 2011
However adult content won't available on Amazon app store for Android.
sloppyjoes7Jan 5, 2011
Competition is always good.
I have thought it strange that there's only one app store. If one computer store was enough, then only having Best Buy would be good. We wouldn't need CompUSA, Circuit City, MicroCenter, etc. But competition is great for the marketplace.
hipmanJan 6, 2011
As long as there's one Iphone market isn't that the real "competition"?.
myztryJan 6, 2011
One app market may just turn out to be Apple's Achilles' heel...
charlotte_webJan 6, 2011
On the contrary, I think Apple's highly managed App Store is a strength, like a garden that's well tended to. I've had a lot of frustration trying to install various apps on an Android tablet. Apple's App Store is the definition of simplicity, and it's been pruned of most of the weeds.
TomHanks4Jan 7, 2011
you had frustration trying to touch the big "install" button?
better keep letting Apple do the thinking for you
paulsmith288Jan 7, 2011
Im thinking its iTunes.
sevenvtJan 6, 2011
There are more stores, you just have to find them and download them.
badqatJan 5, 2011
Does one not wonder if we'll eventually see Google forced to have all competing "markets" installed on Android?
But that would also require Apple (and RIM, HP, Microsoft, Nokia, for as long as they are relevant) to do the exact same thing.
weirddemonJan 5, 2011
I think that would be up to the manufactures of the phone. It has nothing to do with Google. Google releases the OS, MFGs pick the OS and tweak it for their phones. In that process, they install their bloatware, which might include the new market.
The other MFGs you mentioned would have nothing to do with this. Especially since their OSes are closed and they decided what happens to it.
nascenttJan 6, 2011
It makes sense that the manufacturers choose the default apps, but if you look at the PC world, Microsoft were forced to set ballot screens to choose our browser even though manufacturers/oems could've changed it.
sevenvtJan 6, 2011
Yes, but that has less to do with choice and more to do with ie being monopolistic and being forced to avoid defaulting their business into peoples lives.
Closed AccountJan 6, 2011
No it isn't. It stemmed from a past instance where it specifically acted monopolisitic in thie very specific area.
If Microsoft did not put pressure on Dell and Gateway, etc. to refuse to bundle Netscape on their computers in the 90s, then they would not have been forced to do what they haveto do now (though this is ONLY in Europe.)
It is not just simply becuase they are a monopoly. It is not even because they were found to have abused their monopoly in the past. It was because they were fond to have abused their monopoly in that very same area.
If not for that, no one could force Microsoft to make IE the default. (Which is why the US does not do this.)
Closed AccountJan 6, 2011
I Android reaches anywhere NEAR enough market share to be investigated for monopolistic behavior, then maybe. But that ain't happening any time soon.
myztryJan 6, 2011
Android doesn't determine the app store provide with an OEM phone.
If anything, it will lead to "bribes" being paid to Android manufacturers to set the default app store, much like with browsers, search engines, homepages, etc...
sj5605Jan 5, 2011
Another app store. Nice competition.
thatsmrcarterJan 5, 2011
It'll be nice to have another market, but I dont think its going to last very long, especially since its gonna cost more to be a developer and they have to approve of apps. I give it 5 months.
weirddemonJan 5, 2011
The fee for the first year will be waived. Which will grab a lot of developers initially and once it gets going and is proven to be awesome, people won't mind paying the fee. It's the same fee when developing for iOS, WP7 and I think (but I'm not certain) webOS.
nascenttJan 6, 2011
Dunno why you're getting dugg down, it's a valid opinion. I think people are just disagreeing with you.
weirddemonJan 6, 2011
It is a valid opinion, but it's based on inaccurate data. The whole 5 months thing is completely absurd, since I mentioned that the article stated Amazon would be waiving the fee for the first year.
Developers would pay 99 USD a year to develop for a platform they think might make them money. But they'd be even more willing to pay 0 USD and get the same results.
fallenone05Jan 5, 2011
I wont be using it, papa Jobs won't let me
naughtsleepingJan 5, 2011
I think this is very good, for users and for Google. Google ultimately benefits most from the mass adoption of Android (and the associated marginalization of Apple's iOS), not from having a monopoly on the Market itself. They don't actually have a Market monopoly anyway. Archos Android tablets ship with a proprietary Archos market by default for example.
On top of that, Amazon is best-in-class when it comes to user reviews, product search, and fast (and trusted) checkout. In my experience, those are all the current weak points of Android and the Market. If I could browse through apps on Amazon on my PC and push them to my various devices ala Kindle books, I think I would be much more likely to find the app I'm looking for, be confident that it's a good app that other users like, and be one very simple click away from paying for it.
michaelpintoJan 6, 2011
The next logical step will be for carriers to have their own app stores -- while competition can be a good thing a fractured platform might not be. If you want an true open platform get rid of the app stores and allow developers to sell their apps without anyone getting a cut (that's how Windows works now).Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
nascenttJan 6, 2011
You don't have an Android device do you.
You have always been able to download from a 3rd party site via the browser, or via sd card. There's absolutely no requirement to use the Andriod marketplace.
utinamJan 6, 2011
Some do already; Android phones in Japan tied to AU, one of the carriers, ship with an Android Marketplace app as well as an AU marketplace app (presumably to ease Japanese users new to Android into the experience).
znicketJan 6, 2011
Then what happens when I wish to leave that carrier and purchase another Android phone from another carrier? What happens with my purchased apps? Do I need to re-buy them?
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carltonzoneJan 6, 2011
Amazon could actually help boost Android to compete better with Apple's iOS.
TomHanks4Jan 7, 2011
compete "better"? its already outselling it 2 to 1 and increasing it's lead every month
myztryJan 6, 2011
One part where I am not with Google, which is a rare thing, is with carrier charging.
Don't people realise that "carrier charges" is what empowers SMS subscription based scams. Carrier are not 3rd party credit providers like Mastercard, Visa, etc. They are not bound by the regulations which at least attempt to protect consumers from what equates to organised crime.
They should not be allowed to operated at 3rd party credit providers until they are regulated as is required within that industry.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
hotfalconJan 6, 2011
it was about time.
charlotte_webJan 6, 2011
I guess this tells us which OS future versions of the Kindle will be using.
wilhoitmJan 7, 2011
Can't Amazon think of anything more original than another App store! Very innovative Amazon!
Closed AccountJan 7, 2011
I'm a proud Amazon Prime member. Amazon is doing a great job from a marketing point of view.
rebeccaworthleyJan 7, 2011
healthy competition always help. amazon is a good competitor in the tabloid market. Let us see if the prices roll down and we can buy cheaper tabs. http://www.shoppinginfo.biz/business-mobile-phones/verizon-debuts-new-4g-smartphones-and-tablets-digitaltrends-com/
chandreshforyouJan 11, 2011
ok