Of course, with Amazon's new
Android app storefront, this could be nothing more than providing consumers another method to pay for apps, especially with the debut of the Kindle Fire tablet and its prominent app marketplace feature.
Not exact matches
In fact, direct access to Google's cutting - edge mobile services may be the Droid Pro's most persuasive selling point: As of late 2010, the
Android Market application
storefront was home to well over 80,000
apps, while rival BlackBerry
App World mustered only about 10,000.
Though Puzzle Fighter will not be removed from
Android and iOS
storefronts until July 1st, 2018, Capcom is disabling the ability to spend money via in -
app purchases this Monday, April 23rd.
«Amazon could create a compelling
Android - or Linux - based tablet offering easy access to Amazon's
storefront (including its forthcoming
Android app store) and unique Amazon features like one - click purchasing, Amazon Prime service and its recommendations engine.»
Users can quickly get up to speed and customize their favorite
apps, delivered directly from the
Android storefront.
Because Fire is built on a «forked» version of
Android, the Google Play
app storefront doesn't appear on it.
Even though the iPhone and though
Android get all the press for
apps, BlackBerry also has the backing of a pretty solid developer community for applications, so there are tons of applications to download and install, even if they aren't quite as shiny as what's on the iPhone or
Android or available from a convenient
storefront (yet).
While the new Fire OS 5 does make it a good bit easier to get at your
Android apps on the homescreen — and has a neat parallax effect when you scroll — it's still basically a
storefront that's jam - packed with suggestions for things you should buy from Amazon.
It has
apps for Amazon
storefronts, including its
Android app store, MP3, video and cloud services.
That will attract developers to build
apps and games for the platform; but given Apple's substantial lead in that category, not to mention other competitors» reliance on the rapidly expanding
Android Marketplace, RIM could face a steeply uphill battle in creating a viable
app storefront.
Amazon.com, by contrast, could create an
Android - or Linux - based tablet to connect users to Amazon's
storefront, including its forthcoming
Android App Store, said Epps.
The retailer already operates its own
app storefront, the creatively named «appstore», where it distributes
apps for the
Android platform.
Google Play, the «digital
storefront [that] sells
apps, television shows, movies, music, books, newspapers, and magazines for
Android users to download and use on
Android devices»
None of this appears to be all that different from the likes of iOS»
App Store or
Android's Google Play store, but the revamped
storefront looks to be another way for RIM to drum up enthusiasm for its BlackBerry 10 OS, which is expected to be shown off alongside the first BB 10 - capable devices this Wednesday.
RIM's BlackBerry
Storefront, due to launch in March 2009, will provide a centralized online market for BlackBerry
apps, to compete with Apple's iPhone 3G
App Store and the T - Mobile G1's
Android Market.
The retailer already operates its own
app storefront, the creatively named «appstore», where it distributes
apps for the
Android platform.
While some publishers have jumped into the one - stop comics marketplaces like Comixology, others have also put up their own gated digital
storefronts, such as Dark Horse Comics» mobile
app (
Android, iOS), which functions as comics marketplace, download manager, and comics reader all rolled up into a single package.