While
the expanded app selection is good news for Fire TV owners, it may not compel fence - sitters to choose Amazon's set - top box over a Roku, Chromecast or dedicated game console that includes streaming.
Despite seeking to
expand the app selection in later years, this closed system resulted in far fewer apps for the Nook tablets than for its competition.
Not exact matches
This will allow patrons to
expand their
selection of
apps from companies that can't be bothered to invest in the Blackberry platform.
Although the store will feature Android
apps at launch, we will evaluate opportunities to
expand our
selection on an ongoing basis,» he said.
The Nook
app store has decent
selection of add - ons and although it is steadily
expanding, the range of games lags behind that available for the Amazon Kindle Fire or the iPad, and individual
apps sometimes cost more.
The
App Store will surely
expand quickly, but as it grows, Apple needs to make sure we can find
apps that would most interest us, in case the featured
selections don't really speak to us.
Microsoft just announced those headsets will support
apps and games from the Steam platform, which will greatly
expand selection.
This is fine, as long as the Nexus Player's
app selection is limited (more on this later), but if and when the
selection expands, this form of navigation could prove very cumbersome.