Amazon Reportedly Planning Their Own Android App Market

hothardware.com — Does the world have room for another App Store? We'll find out soon. Reportedly, Amazon is planning to launch their very own app store for Android-based devices. Amazon already sells eBook content through the Kindle, and while a few games have also emerged for Kindle, having a dedicated app store that would be available... Oct 9, 2010 View in Crawl 4

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Amazon Reportedly Planning Their Own Android App Market

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th4k1dd Oct 10, 2010

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That is why Apple sucks. At least with Android we can hack it and therefore have competition. I would be willing to bet that iPhone dies a long and slow death unless Jobs wakes up and smells the coffee.

jqp123 Oct 10, 2010

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Since Android is open source, how come noone has built an open source app store?

Or maybe one exists and I just don't know about it. If so, where do I get the source code?Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.

nubious Oct 10, 2010

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What the title says: "Amazon Reportedly Planning Their Own Android App Market"
How the title reads: "Amazon thinks they can do a better job at app distribution than Google"

psperson5 Oct 10, 2010

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now, what i want to know is why they are allowing carrier-exclusive apps..... like skype. SKYPE! PLEASE MOVE TO THE EVO!!!

rdjurovich Oct 11, 2010

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i can understand apple taking 30% on their apps store since they aren't just providing a distribution platform, they're providing the actual phone platform. but i don't see how amazon could justify 30% when all they're doing is providing a distribution platform, that won't even be installed by default?!

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