...and the disruption is good for developers. Competition with the Android Market is a good thing, and will hopefully force Google to finally perform some much needed updates and enhancements.
Competition is good. Having many different venues to sell products (our apps) is good, and decentralizing the control of how apps are distributed is good. However, I don't think the Amazon model is good for developers in this particular case. On Jan 7, 9:33 pm, Avtar Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > I think it is a very significant announcement. From my point of view, it is > not as much as that there is a new "app store" but that it is backed up by > Amazon which has awesome reach and global recognition. That is what might > tilt people towards it. I also believe that it will be sometime before each > of us can figure out whether it is really worth paying $99 per year. But if > anyone can have a shot at building a marketplace with traction besides > Google/Apple/MS, it has to be someone like Amazon with most of the > technology already in place and then some. Hmm.. lots of disruption.. > > On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 9:06 AM, TreKing <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 4:57 PM, Chister Nordvik <[email protected]>wrote: > > >> If this is only bundled with a Kindle type of device running Android then > >> I don't think it will have much of a success. > > >> I have submitted our app to 10+ appstores and they have all been a waste > >> of time (maybe except for the SE PlayNow but that was shut down). > > > I'm going out on a limb and assume that these other app stores did not have > > have the size, user-base, brand recognition, and trust Amazon has. Or did > > they? > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > TreKing <http://sites.google.com/site/rezmobileapps/treking> - Chicago > > transit tracking app for Android-powered devices > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Android Discuss" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]<android-discuss%[email protected]> > > . > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en.
