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Amazon has now opened its own app store to developers
January 5, 2011 | by Lars Aronsson
Android, Android News
We’ve known for sure since early October last year that Amazon has an Android app store in the works, and the online retailer has now made it open to developers. Application devs interested in making its offerings part of the Amazon ecosystem can sign up for free, since the first batch that registers don’t need to pay the $99 annual fee. Android users will be able to download apps from Amazon’s store later in 2011.
Some people think that multiple application markets are good for Android, but I personally don’t like them, and neither does most developers I’ve been in contact with. As a user, as long as I will still be able to get all apps from the Android Market, additional stores won’t bother me, but if one first has to find the correct source to download an app, it’s clearly a drawback. If you want a lot more details, visit TechCrunch via the link at the bottom of the post.
What do you think of all the new Android app stores?
Via [EuroDroid, TechCrunch]
We can't pay $100 for each app store we want to put our apps. It's stupid. And people can't have 10 different app store installed on their phone. It's stupid too. Long live Market !
I repeatedly made my viewpoint clear that alternative markets for Android are a hassle for developers and consumers alike. That's why ActionComplete currently available from (Google) Android Market only. It's quite easy to see though that Amazon Android market is a totally different thing and a game changer. It has all the potential to become the default Android market and displace Google's. Why so? Because of the huge experience Amazon has in *marketing* and *sales* of digital assets. Android market is a distribution medium only. If your application is not lucky to get featured or stay at the very top in its category, the market in fact becomes an obstacle as it restricts the application distribution channels to itself and does not provide any marketing/promotional leverage. Amazon, in contrast, will cross-sell the applications. Web store front and a whooping base of customers ready to use the one-click purchase mechanism also count. Pricing policy is also something to consider. Being a part of a greater whole, it has a potential to generate the revenue way in excess of what an indie developer or a small company can possible hope for with Google Android market. I'm placing a heavy bet on Amazon Android market. Borys Burnayev actioncomplete.com GTD for Android and Web My recent post AC for Android 741 Released- Changes Norwegian Language Code to Bokmål nb