Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Amazon prepares its Android application store

Amazon prepares its own Android application store. The first sign that the project is serious is that it has published the criteria for developers to start creating applications for the store catalog. In the documentation, Amazon explains the features of your new store. The most striking with respect to other existing models is that Amazon reserves the final pricing can be different to that suggested by the developer.

He will receive a maximum of 70% of the sale, but provides another formula in the case of the fixed price is less than proposed by the developer. Customers can access the store from your computer or mobile phone and the same products have a similar support offered by the online store for their usual products (recommended by other buyers, refined searches ...).

Amazon does not announce any release date but agrees that the first version to the U.S. market will open this year. The company does not require unique applications that may be available in other stores Android. Policy on acceptance of applications in the store, the paper suggests a middle ground between maintaining Google, very open, and strict revisions made to integrate Apple's catalog.

Amazon announced that it will make a technical review to assess compliance with specifications due not damage the machine hosting and not hosting the malware. At the same time states that it will be prescriptive about what is meant by good design. The operating system should build Android applications is in its version 1.6 or higher.

The emergence of this new Android store will raise the fragmentation of this market. Some developers have already complained that different manufacturers have Android phones equipped with its own technical requirements and you have to develop more than one version in order to serve the entire market for applications based on Android, Google's operating system for mobile.

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