“Amazon.com Inc. is planning to open a software-applications store for smartphones running Google Inc.’s Android operating system, putting it in direct competition with Google’s own marketplace as well as Apple Inc.’s App Store,” Yukari Iwatani Kane and Geoffrey A. Fowler report for The Wall Street Journal.
According to an Amazon document for developers that was viewed by The Wall Street Journal, Amazon would take a 30% cut of sales, with the developers keeping the rest. The document includes a stipulation that the apps can’t be offered at a lower price anywhere else,” Kane and Fowler report. “The revenue-share split is consistent with other app stores, such as Apple’s industry-leading iTunes store, which sells apps for iPhones and iPads.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Yawn. The race to become the biggest Apple wannabe continues.
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So the fragmentation of Android will not just be hardware, but software as well? With customers having to buy apps from Google, Verizon, Amazon, and whoever else opens an app store? And developers then have to list their apps at all these stores, each of which has different markets, prices, policies, payment methods, etc.? What a nightmare!!!
So the fragmentation of Android will not just be hardware, but software as well? With customers having to buy apps from Google, Verizon, Amazon, and whoever else opens an app store? And developers then have to list their apps at all these stores, each of which has different markets, prices, policies, payment methods, etc.? What a nightmare!!!
I wonder how this will do. WOnt this just confuse people as to have several stores? Well do i go to this android store or this one or this one?
I wonder how this will do. WOnt this just confuse people as to have several stores? Well do i go to this android store or this one or this one?
Puh-leeze. If I had an Android, why oh why for the love of Uncle Fester’s laboratory would I pollute a phone with malware apps ?
Puh-leeze. If I had an Android, why oh why for the love of Uncle Fester’s laboratory would I pollute a phone with malware apps ?
Reminds me of the race to offer Plays-For-Sure music stores.
Reminds me of the race to offer Plays-For-Sure music stores.
WOnt this just confuse people as to have several stores? Well do i go to this android store or this one or this one?
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Probably not, just like in the brick and mortar retail world, you can buy the same item at multiple stores, I can get an iPod at Best Buy or Target or Radio Shack or an Apple Store.
WOnt this just confuse people as to have several stores? Well do i go to this android store or this one or this one?
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Probably not, just like in the brick and mortar retail world, you can buy the same item at multiple stores, I can get an iPod at Best Buy or Target or Radio Shack or an Apple Store.
What about app upgrades and bug fixes? Sounds like a nightmare.
What about app upgrades and bug fixes? Sounds like a nightmare.
“Probably not, just like in the brick and mortar retail world, you can buy the same item at multiple stores, I can get an iPod at Best Buy or Target or Radio Shack or an Apple Store.”
That’s for buying physical goods. And it’s a pain in the ass when the product isn’t in stock. For Apps, there is absolutely no reason to have multiple stores, and multiple places to check… it’s annoying
“Probably not, just like in the brick and mortar retail world, you can buy the same item at multiple stores, I can get an iPod at Best Buy or Target or Radio Shack or an Apple Store.”
That’s for buying physical goods. And it’s a pain in the ass when the product isn’t in stock. For Apps, there is absolutely no reason to have multiple stores, and multiple places to check… it’s annoying
@mike
What’s the difference? It’s easier to check prices online than it is a retail store
@mike
What’s the difference? It’s easier to check prices online than it is a retail store
How will an Amazon Android App store be “direct competition” for “Apple Inc.’s App Store?”
How will an Amazon Android App store be “direct competition” for “Apple Inc.’s App Store?”
I can buy something on Amazon as well as other sites. I can download music there or from iTunes.
It’s not confusing to me.
It does bother me that people, for now, are jumoing on the Android bandwagon- or at least legitimizing it.
And now David Pogue writes that the flash issue is due more to control on Apple’s part than technical issues.
Annoying.
I can buy something on Amazon as well as other sites. I can download music there or from iTunes.
It’s not confusing to me.
It does bother me that people, for now, are jumoing on the Android bandwagon- or at least legitimizing it.
And now David Pogue writes that the flash issue is due more to control on Apple’s part than technical issues.
Annoying.
I would not be surprised to see a Amazon android phone or tablet appear in the near future to take full advantage of this new app store.
I would not be surprised to see a Amazon android phone or tablet appear in the near future to take full advantage of this new app store.
“The Amazon App Store For Android! Download viruses at lightning speed! Guaranteed to steal your identity or your money back!”
“The Amazon App Store For Android! Download viruses at lightning speed! Guaranteed to steal your identity or your money back!”
Anonymous auramac sez: “And now David Pogue writes that the flash issue is due more to control on Apple’s part than technical issues”
Sadly, David has been going a bit senile on certain technology. I first noticed it when he was championing bogus “HD” radio technology, which is anything but HD. Despite my knowing him and admiring his work, I have avoided reading his articles for over a year. There are better tech pundits these days.